Samuel Bernard, also known as Jacques-Samuel Bernard [1] was a French miniature painter and engraver.
Born to a Protestant family in Paris in 1615, [2] he was the son of Noel Bernard, a painter. He was a pupil of both Simon Vouet and of Louis du Guernier, and began his artistic career painting frescos. Bernard moved on to painting miniatures before finally devoting himself entirely to engraving. [3] Some still lifes, painted in the early 1660s, are also known. [2]
He joined the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture on its foundation in 1648 and became a professor there in 1655. He was expelled on religious grounds in 1681, but restored to his post following his recantation of Protestantism four years later. [2]
He died in Paris in 1687. [3] The financier Samuel Bernard was his son. [2]
He engraved plates, both in line and in mezzotint. They include: [3]
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