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Edelinck, Gérard
(b Antwerp, bapt 20 Oct 1640; d Paris, 2 April 1707). French engraver and print publisher of Flemish origin. He was the son of a tailor in Antwerp and trained as an engraver with Gaspar Huybrechts (1619–84) and Cornelis Galle the younger. On arriving in Paris in 1666, he worked with his compatriot Nicolas Pitau the elder, and then with François de Poilly, Robert Nanteuil and Philippe de Champaigne. In 1672 he married the daughter of Nicolas Regnesson, the Parisian engraver and print publisher, thus himself becoming a print publisher. In 1675 he became a naturalized Frenchman and in 1677 was admitted (reçu) to the Académie Royale. In 1695 he was made a Chevalier of the Order of St Michel and a Papal Knight. He became both a councillor at the Académie and Premier Dessinateur du Cabinet du Roi. Among his pupils were his brother Jean Edelinck (b Antwerp, c. 1643; d Paris, 14 May 1680), his godson Nicolas Pitau the younger and Jacques Lubin (c. 1659–after 1703). Edelinck specialized in portraits, which make up two-thirds of his work; he was a reproductive engraver, who translated the works of the most important portraitists of his time, such as Hyacinthe Rigaud (e.g. Charles Colbert, Marquis de Croissy, 1691; see Weigert, no. 121) and Nicolas de Largillierre (e.g. Charles Gobinet, 1691, W 123), and is considered as one of the century’s greatest engravers.
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