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Last Name Bessa

Given Name Pancrace

alt. Names P. B. ;

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Year born 1772 in Paris

Year died 1846

Place of death Écouen, Val-d'Oise, France

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Education student of ->Gérard van Spaendonck, ->Redouté, and ->Paulin Guérin ;

Country of Activity France

Worked for J. L. A. Loiseleur-Deslongchamps: Herbier (1814-27) ; C. F. Brisseau-Mirbel ; J. L. Poiret ; J. H. J. Saint-Hilaire ; Veillard ; Aimé Bonpland ; P. A. Poiteau ; Michaux: Arbres ; Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau: Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en Europe (n. ed. Paris, 1801-19) ; Mordant de Launay: Herbarier ; R. P. Lesson, P. Garnot, F. E. Guérin-Ménéville: Voyage (1826) ; Louis Isidore Duperrey (1786-1865) ; Vélins du roi 1823-46; Description de l'Egypte.

Patronage princess Caroline of Naples & Sicily ; Duchesse du Berry ; Muséum de l'Histoire Naturelle Paris ;

Collaborators artist ->Pierre-Joseph Redouté ; artist Adèle Riché ; engraver -> Coutant ; engraver -> Barrois ; engraver -> Gabriel ; engraver -> Jarry ;

Techniques botanical drawing, oil painting, watercolour, engraving, stipple, and vellum ; hand-colouring ;

Sample(s) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancrace_Bessa ; www.artnet.de/artists/lotdetailpage.aspx?lot_id=6B1F320FDF2EF47AF6E70A5986CF0CF0 ;

Archival sources Museum des Jardin des Plantes Paris, cf. also www.photo.rmn.fr/LowRes2/TR6/2YRPXF/09-566268.jpg ; www.photo.rmn.fr/LowRes2/TR6/PL3GVI/09-566272.jpg ;

Published sources AKL 10 1995: 204 ; ThB 3 1909: 534 ; Nissen: Botan. Buchillustration 1966 ; Dance 1989 ; Luc Vezin: Artistes Jardin Plantes 1990 ; Pinault 1991: 26, 116f. & 120 ; Wunderlich (1996): 8; Wheeler 2003: 30, 32-3, 37, 58, 120, 124, 144, 150; Lack: Eden 2008 ;

other See also: http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=825&-max=25 .

Further archival source: https://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/bessa-pancrace.html .

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