Pierre-Charles Canot

Pierre-Charles Canot was a French engraver. He was born in France about 1710. In 1740, he moved to England and lived there the rest of his life. He was elected an Associate-Engraver of the Royal Academy in 1770, and died at Kentish Town, near London, in 1777. He engraved a great number of landscapes, sea-pieces, and other subjects. He executed some of his best prints after the works of Richard Paton. Besides these, his most esteemed plates include:

• A Slight Breeze—after Bakhuisen
• A Fresh Breeze—after W. van de Velde
• A Calm—after the same
• A Storm—after the same
• Returning from Market—after P. de Laer
• The Amorous Toper—after D. Teniers
• The Dutch Smokers—after the same
• The Dutch Cottage—after Pillement
• Autumn—after the same
• Winter—after the same
• A Dutch Merry-making—after Ostade
• Pyramus and Thisbe—after L. Bramer
• The Tempest—after S. de Vliegher
• An Italian Landscape—after Gaspard Poussin
• A Landscape—after Claude Lorrain
• Sunrise, a marine—after the same
• Two Pastoral Subjects—after Rosa da Tivoli
• Two Views of Westminster Bridge and London Bridge—after Scott
• Seven Fox-hunting Subjects—after Wootton

References

This article incorporates text from the article "CANOT, Pierre Charles" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.