"French dancer and dancing master, resident in London for about 30 years, befoer returning to Paris. Later became a dealer in prints and drawings, and small-scale ...
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publisher; sold stock at auction in March 1761; by 1766 had established himself in Paris as a printseller. Published a large compilation of Pillement in 1767. Auction sale of all his plates, Paris 29/30 July 1773.
He is mentioned in the Reminiscences of Henry Angelo, 1904 ed., I pp.53-5 as a French dancing master who had an excellent collection of prints, 'Wille, Le Bas and other celebrated engravers were his intimates and Vernet frequently passed the evening at his house'. He later became a printseller 'and sent annually to Leipzig for a vast collection of the finest prints'." - https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG150238, 02.10.2020
