S. F. R. ; Ravenet / Avenet the elder / S. Francis le vieux / d. Ä. / der Ältere / the Elder;
son -> Simon François Ravenet the Younger (London 1748-Paris 1814) ; surgeon-son Simon Jean (Giovanni) François Ravenet II (1737-1821) ;
1706 in Paris
1774
London
studied engraving under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas before moving to London in 1750, where he founded a school of line engraving
France
Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697-1750): Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani (1747) ; Tables of the Skeleton & Muscles of the Human Body (London 1749) ; The anatomy of painting, or, A short and easy introduction to anatomy, (1769) ; William Hunter: Anatomia uteri (1774: plates 1 & 7) ; Alderman John Boydell ;
National Portrait Gallery, London ; Cleveland Museum of Art ; porcelain manufactory at Chelsea ;
copperplate engraver -> L. P. Boitard ; copperplate engraver -> C. Grignion ; copperplate engraver -> G. Scotin ; copperplate engraver -> Jan Wandelaar ; copperplate engraver F. Vivares ; copperplate engraver V. M. Picot ; publisher Hermann Verbeek ; -> Jan van Rymsdyk ; F. Vivares; V. M. Picot ; J. M. Delâtre ;
www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/albinus_home.html ; National Portrait Gallery ;
DNB 47 ; Choulant 1920: 296; Lapage 1961: 18f. & pl. 11 ; L'Illustration Anatomique de la Renaissance au Siècle des Lumières (Neuchatel 1998: 56-61) ;
Until 1750 active in Paris, France, since then in London, England, where he founded a school of line engraving; see also www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/Images/1200_pixels/Albinus_t04.jpg and www.library.utoronto.ca/anatomical/RBAI047/0008-0-0.jpg AKL; ThB28, 1934 and National Portrait Gallery:
www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person.php?LinkID=mp17141&role=art
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