Nicolas Dorigny

[2] His education prepared him for the legal field, and he followed that profession until he was thirty years of age, when, as a result of deafness, he turned to the arts.

He is better known, however, for his technique unifying the point and the graver, characteristic of his later productions.

Although he may not have equalled that celebrated artist, either in the style of his drawing, or in the picturesque effect of his light and shade, his prints will always be esteemed both for their merit as engravings and for the importance of the subjects which he chose.

In 1711, he was invited to England by Queen Anne to engrave the Cartoons of Raphael at Hampton Court, which he finished in 1719, and in the following year he was knighted by King George I.

He exhibited some pictures of sacred subjects at the Salon from 1739 to 1743, and died in Paris in 1746.