Jacques Roettiers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jacques Roettiers

Parisian engraver, goldsmith and silversmith

Date of Birth: 20-Aug-1707

Place of Birth: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 17-May-1784

Profession: goldsmith, engraver, sculptor, medallist, silversmith

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Jacques Roettiers

  • Jacques Roettiers (20 August 1707 – 17 May 1784) was a noted engraver in England and France, and one of the most celebrated Parisian goldsmiths and silversmiths of his day. Roettiers was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, to Norbert Roettiers (1665–1727) and his wife Winifred Clarke, niece of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough.
  • As a Roettiers, he was born into a distinguished family of medallists, engravers, and goldsmiths.
  • Roettiers studied drawing and sculpture at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, winning a prize to be pensionnaire du Roi at the French Academy in Rome.
  • Instead he remained in Paris to learn medal-engraving and in 1732 moved to London.
  • There he was appointed Engraver at the Royal Mint. He returned to Paris in 1733, however, where he became a master and designed a whole service for Louis, Dauphin of France, the son of Louis XV of France.
  • In that same year, he married the sixteen-year-old daughter of Nicolas Besnier, orfèvre du Roi.
  • In 1736 he created perhaps his finest piece for Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon (1692–1740): a Rococo silver surtout de table representing a hunting scene (now in the Louvre).
  • When Besnier died in 1737, Roettiers took his position.
  • His work proved highly fashionable, and a source of wealth and honors.
  • In 1772 became a peer and a year later admitted into the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
  • He retired in 1774, and died in Paris in 1784. Examples of Rottiers' work can be found in the Louvre and British Museum.
  • His son Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers (1736–1788) was also a celebrated goldsmith and silversmith.

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