Personalities Daullé, Jean

Engraver. He was born in the family of a jeweler. He received his first engraving lessons from Robart, a monk of the monastery of St. Peter in Abbeville. Then he went to Paris, where he studied with his compatriot, engraver Robert Hecquet (1693-1775). The first serious work that brought him success was a portrait of the Countess Catherine de Feuquière, daughter of the artist Pierre Mignard. In 1735, he met the portrait painter Hyacinthe Rigaud, with whom he had friendly relations and whose paintings he reproduced. Since 1742, he had been a member of the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Unsurpassed master in the field of portrait genre. He created more than 170 engravings based on the originals of French and Flemish artists. Among his students are Pierre-François Basan and Johann Georg Wille.