Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet

Jacques Firmin Beauvarlet, a celebrated engraver, was born at Abbeville in 1731.

He went to Paris when young, and was instructed in the art by Charles Dupuis and Laurent Cars.

His first manner was bold and free, and his plates in that style are preferred by some to the more finished and highly-wrought prints that he afterwards produced, although it must be confessed that the latter are executed with great neatness and delicacy.

Beauvarlet married, in 1761, Catherine Jeanne Françoise Deschamps, a young lady who possessed some skill in engraving, but who died in 1769 at the age of thirty-one.

Eight years later, in 1787, he married Marie Catherine Riollet, who, like his first wife, was an engraver.