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Last Name Le Blon

Given Name Jakob Christoffel / Jacob Christof

alt. Names J. C. L. B. ; Jacob Christophe / Jakob Christof / Jaçques-Cristophe / Leblon / Le Blond, Leblond ;

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Year born 1667 in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Year died 1741

Place of death London, UK

Father's occupation Christof II Le Blon

Relatives Christof Le Blon (grandfather) married Susanna Barbara Merian, daughter of the artist and engraver ->Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) ; ->Maria S. Merian

Education painting in Rome (Carlo Maratti), Amsterdam (B. v. Overbeck), The Hague, Zurich (->Conrad Meyer),Paris (->Abraham Bosse), since 1720 in London

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for Dutch physician Arent Cant (1659-1723) ; Nathanael St. André, the British King's anatomist ; J. C. Le Blon: Coloritto or The Harmony of Colouring ;

Patronage George I ;

Collaborators père Castel ; ->J. F. Gautier ; ->Jacob L'Admiral ; his apprentice & successor ->Jan L'Admiral ;

Techniques anatomical painting, color mezzotint engraving, inventor of color-printing technique 1704: www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/histmed/medica/gda.htm

Sample(s) http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts/2008/03/printed_paintings_and_engraved.html

Archival sources www.gutenberg-e.org/lowengard/C_Chap14.html ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Christoph_Le_Blon for further refs.

Published sources AKL ; ThB 22 1928: 504 ; Choulant 1920: 35 & 265-6 ; P. Krivatsky: J. Hist. Med. 23 (1968): 153-8 ; Thornton & Reeves 1983: 77 ; Bamber Gascoigne: Milestones in Colour Printing 1457-1859 (1997: 8-10) ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Margócsy 2014: 5, 167ff. & passim ; Cornelia Kemp: Aus drei mach eins. Ein Streifzug durch die Geschichte der Farbfotografie, Kultur und Technik 01/2009: 32-37, esp. p. 36; BNBF: Recueil. Oeuvre de Jacob Christoph Le Blon

other Since 1719, J.C. Le Blon was active in London, where he owned a wall-paper factory in London; later he was active in Amsterdam, in France since 1732;

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