P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel

Portrait of Richard François Philippe Brunck, from the Cabinet des estampes et des dessins (Strasbourg).

P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, a French draughtsman and engraver, was born in Paris about 1750. He was chiefly employed in engraving portraits, which are neatly executed, and which include the following plates:

• Pope Benedict XIV.
• Pope Clement XIV.
• Madame Louise, of France.
• Louis François Gabriel de la Motte, Bishop of Amiens.
• General Paoli.
• Prosper Jean de Crébillon.
• Jean Bart, Admiral.
• The Chevalier d'Eon.
• An allegorical subject; inscribed Trinus et unus.
• A Boy playing on the Tambour de Basque.

References

This article incorporates text from the article "BRADEL, P. Jean Baptiste" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.