SÖK KARTOGRAFER, GRAVÖRER M.FL.

LUBBIN [LÜBBIN, LUBINUS], EILHARD [EILHARDUS, EILERT].

Cartographer and Professor of Mathematics of Rostock.

Bland arbeten.
Rügen Mercator 1609, Blaeu 1631,
Pomerania 12 sh. 1618 used by Hondius, Blaeu &c.

Tooley.

SPAFARIEFF, Leonty

Knight Leontiy Vassilievich Spafaryev (1765 - 30 January 1847) was a Lieutenant General of the Imperial Russian Navy. Spafaryev was Director of the Lighthouse Administration and cartographer of the Russian Admiralty.
Spafariev was an important contributor to the improvement of navigation along the Russian coasts. The first lighthouses in Russia were built during tsar Peter the Great's drive for reform and modernization at the beginning of the 18th century. However, it was only until the Administration of Lighthouses was created in 1807 that the Russian lighthouse system followed an organized pattern, becoming effective and efficient. This office was established by the Russian Navy and it began under the leadership of Leontiy V. Spafaryev.
As a cartographer, perhaps his most outstanding work is the 'Atlas of the Gulf of Finland', published in 1817. His name is spelt as 'Spafarief' or 'Spafarieff' in the United States.
The Spafaryev Islands in the Sea of Okhotsk and Spafarief Bay in the coast of Alaska...
Bland arbeten.
Atlas of the Gulf of Finland containing the South Coast, with the Islands from cape Luserort to Cronstadt with Light houses & Towers necessary to be known for sailing by night.

DESPREZ, LOUIS JEAN

Född 1737 i Auxerre, Frankrike, död 19 mars 1804 i Stockholm.
Desprez var en fransk arkitekt, målare, och grafiker, verksam i Sverige. Desprez föddes i staden Auxerre i Burgund 1737. Han studerade till arkitekt och vann 1770 stora priset i Académie d'architecture i Paris. Han var då 'professeur de dessin ā l'école royale militaire'. Senare fick han understöd av franska konstakademien och gjorde flera resor i Italien.
Desprez kom till Rom 1777 i egenskap av arkitekt och fransk konststipendiat. Han hade två gånger blivit prisbelönad vid byggnadsakademien i Paris, första gången för ett ståtligt och invecklat gravtempel, andra gången för 'ett slott för en hög herre'. I Rom började han att pliktskyldigt studera och avrita de antika byggnadsminnena. Han gjorde sig snart känd som en skicklig och fantasirik avtecknare av kyrkor och ruiner och som en mångsidig talang, etsare, akvarellist och även målare i olja. Den franske målaren Joseph Marie Vien kallade honom 'en ung man full av eld och snille'. Desprez hade knappt blivit hemmastadd i Rom innan han skaffade sig tillstånd a...

Stockholm - Mentzer ca 1860.

Wellinck - C. H. Tersmeden ca 1900.

L'ENFANT, PIERRE CHARLES.

Biografiska uppgifter:1754-1825.
L'Enfant was born in Paris where he trained to be an architect. He came to America in 1777, and served George Washington as an engineer during the Revolutionary War. In 1791 President Washington asked L'Enfant to design the new capitol city in the District of Columbia. L'Enfant designed a city similar in layout to the then French capitol city of Versailles. The Capitol in Washington sits in a position similar to that of the palace in Versailles, the White House (originally called the President's House) in the position of Grand Trianon, and the Mall is like the Parc. The Commissioners of the City of Washington wanted to have a printed copy of the plan when they began to sell building lots. L'Enfant irritated them by working slowly and releasing only sketchy plans . On instruction from President Washington, Thomas Jefferson on February 27, 1792 wrote a letter to L'Enfant dismissing him as city planner. L'Enfant died penniless and was buried on a friend's estate. In 1909 his remains were moved to Arlington National Cemetery on a hill overlooking the capitol city.



(Washington Map Society.Se även wikipedias artikel, 'Pierre Charles L'Enfant'.)

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