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 Rh seven years. Liart then occupied his father's second-floor front room, in which he engraved all his plates.

He drew at the Royal Academy, where he gained the silver medal for a drawing of a figure from the life; and he also obtained a prize from the Society of Arts. Mr. West has declared that Liart drew the human figure well, and he has frequently been heard to observe, that had he studied the historical and highest class of the art, he was quite certain he would have succeeded. He died about the year 1782, in Compton-street, in the house in which he was born, and in the room in which he engraved, and was buried at Paddington. Mr. Audinet, the Engraver, from whom I received some of the above particulars, and who has a spirited portrait of him painted by Laurenson, is perfectly satisfied that Liart never even saw the sea.

Of the various plates engraven by Liart, the two from Mr. West's pictures of Venus and Adonis, and Cephalus and Frocris, are unquestionably his best.