Philippe Joseph Maillart

A map of the Département de la Dyle, by Philippe Joseph Maillart and his sister, Jeanne Catherine Maillart

Philippe Joseph Maillart (1764–1856) was a Belgian engraver of maps, caricatures and costume prints.

Life

Maillart was born in Brussels, the son of François Joseph Maillart, a goldsmith, and Marie Livine van Wymers.[1] He was baptised in Brussels Minster on 4 February 1764. Training as a printmaker, he specialised in cartographic engraving, sometimes working with the geographer Jean-Baptiste de Bouge.[1] During the Brabant Revolution that led to the creation of the United Belgian States he also produced prints relating to current affairs, working from exile in Lille and Paris.[2] Around 1799 he produced a series of prints depicting key events in the French Revolution, under the title La Galerie Historique.[3]

He collaborated with his sister, Jeanne Catherine Maillart, on work that included a series of costume prints depicting the official uniforms of those holding public office in the French Directorate, another showing the monastic habits of the suppressed religious orders,[4] as well as maps of the new administrative boundaries created by the French in the former United Belgian States, and of the theatres of action of the Napoleonic Wars.[1] The last concluded with a map of the Battle of Waterloo.

Besides working as an artist, Maillart also sat on the administrative committee of the house of detention in Vilvoorde, where he was appointed a justice of the peace on 19 September 1824. He remained in that post through the Belgian Revolution.[1] In later life, after being widowed, he moved to Ixelles, where he died on 23 April 1856.[1]

Works

Monument historique du dixneuvième siècle. Juin MDCCCXV, showing the locations of the fighting culminating in the Battle of Waterloo, 15–18 June 1815
  • Carte du théâtre de la guerre actuelle en Allemagne (1796)
  • Carte de la guerre actuelle en Italie (1797)
  • La Galerie Historique, ou Tableaux des Evénemens de la Révolution Française (c.1799)
  • Nouvelle Carte du département de la Dyle (1799)
  • Nouvelle Carte du département de la Lys (1800)
  • Nouvelle Carte du département des Deux-Nèthes (1800)
  • Collection de costumes de tous les ordres monastiques supprimés à différentes époques dans la ci-devant Belgique (1811)
  • Carte du théâtre de la guerre dans le nord de l'Allemagne (1813)
  • Monument historique du dixneuvième siècle. Juin MDCCCXV (1815)
  • Plan topographique de la ville de Bruxelles et de ses faubourgs (1816)
  • Nouvelles Cartes des provinces de la Flandre orientale, de Namur, du Brabant méridional, du Hainaut, de la province de Liège, de la province d'Anvers
  • Vue de la place Royale à Bruxelles

References

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