Pierre-Charles Canot (c.1710–77) was a French engraver who spent most of his career in England.

Life

Canot was born in France in about 1710. In 1740 he moved to England, where he lived there the rest of his life. He was elected an Associate Engraver of the Royal Academy in 1770, and died at

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, then just outside London, in 1777. He engraved a large number of landscapes, sea-pieces, and other subjects after artists including

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and Jean Pillement. Joseph Strutt believed that his best prints were some large plates of maritime subjects after the works of

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Works

His prints include: *''A Slight Breeze'' after Bakhuisen. *''A Fresh Breeze'' after W. van de Velde. *''A Calm'' after W. van de Velde. *''A Storm'' after W. van de Velde. *''Returning from Market'' after P. de Laer. *''The Amorous Toper'' after D. Teniers. *''The Dutch Smokers'' after Teniers. *''The Dutch Cottage'' after Pillement. *''Autumn'' after Pillement. *''Winter'' after Pillement. *''A Dutch Merry-making'' after Ostade. *''Pyramus and Thisbe'' after L. Bramer. *''The Tempest'' after S. de Vliegher. *''An Italian Landscape'' after Gaspard Poussin. *''A Landscape''—after Claude Lorrain. *''Sunrise, a marine'' after Claude Lorrain. *Two pastoral subjects after Rosa da Tivoli. *Views of Westminster Bridge and London Bridge after Scott. *Seven fox-hunting subjects after Wootton. *A true representation of Tower Hill as it appeared from a raised point of view from the north side on 18 August 1746, when the Earl of Kilmarnock and the Lord Balmerino were beheaded. _Budd_[_P_C_Canot_

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