Explore: Thomas Vivares

(1735 - )

Thomas Vivares was born in Derby; the son of landscape engraver Francis Vivares. He was trained by his father and won several prizes for drawing or engraving at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce between 1760 and 1766. He exhibited his drawings and engravings at the Free Society (1764 and 1782) and the Society of Artists (1782). Vivares married twice, both weddings were at St. Pancras Old Church in Camden, London. He spent a period of his career in Paris and, while there, engraved landscapes after French painter Pierre Alexandre Royer and Swiss printmaker and draughtsman Adrian Zingg.