Desrochers, Andier Stephen John
, engraver
to the French king, was born at Lyons, and settled at
Paris, where he died in 1741, at a very advanced age.
He engraved subjects from the ancient mythology, especially after the paintings of Correggio. But the greatest
of all his performances is a long series of portraits in busts,
of persons signalized by their birth, in war, in the ministry,
in the magistracy, in the sciences, and in the arts. This
series amounts to upwards of seven hundred portraits, with
verses at bottom, the greater part of them by Gacou.
The emperor Charles VI. recompensed des Rochers with a
fine golden medal for some impressions of the portrait of
his imperial majesty, which this engraver had sent him. 2
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Desrochers, Andier Stephen John (1741–?)
Eachard, John (
1741–
1697)
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