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Silvestre (i).
French family of artists. The engraver and draughtsman (1) Israël Silvestre was a nephew of ISRAËL HENRIET. Most of Silvestre’s children became painters, draughtsmen or engravers. His son (2) Louis de Silvestre (the younger) was a successful painter, who worked for the Saxon court from 1716 to 1748. Louis’s brother Charles-François Silvestre (b Paris, 10 April 1667; d Versailles, 8 Feb 1738) was a painter, draughtsman and engraver. Louis Silvestre (the elder) (b Paris, 20 March 1669; d Paris, 18 April 1740) was a painter and engraver, and both Alexandre Silvestre (b Paris, 26 Dec 1672) and Suzanne Silvestre (b Paris, 14 June 1694; d before 1738) were engravers. Suzanne married the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the elder. The following members have entries:
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