Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles

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Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, engraved by Jacques Coelemans.
Born December 21, 1650
Aix-en-Provence, France
Died October 4, 1709
Aix-en-Provence, France
Occupation Aristocrat, lawyer
Spouse(s) Jeanne-Marie Surle dame d'Argens
Children 11

Jean-Baptiste Boyer, Marquis d’Éguilles (16501709) was a French aristocrat, lawyer and engraver.

Biography

Early life

Jean-Baptiste Boyer was born on December 21, 1650 in Aix-en-Provence.

Career

He became procurator-general of the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence.

His love of the arts led him into an intimacy with the principal artists of his time, particularly with Pierre Paul Puget, the celebrated sculptor, with whom he went to Italy, and formed a large collection of pictures, sculpture, &c., of which he published the prints in two volumes; six of the plates were engraved by himself. He also amused himself with painting, for which he is said to have had an excellent taste. Some of his plates are executed with the graver, the others scraped in mezzotint.

Personal life

He married Jeanne-Marie Surle, Lady of Argens (circa 1650-circa 1720), on April 1, 1671. They had eleven children:

Death

He died in Aix-en-Provence, at the age of fifty-eight.

Engravings

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BOYER, Jean Baptiste" 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.

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