Pierre Lyonnet | |
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 Pierre Lyonnet | |
| Born | 21 July 1706 Maastricht, Netherlands |
| Died | 10 January 1789 (aged 82) The Hague, Netherlands |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | naturalist. |
Pierre Lyonnet or Lyonet (21 July 1706 – 10 January 1789)[1] was a Dutch artist and engraver who became a naturalist. He was a collector both of shells (a major collecting craze at the time) and paintings, whose collection included Woman Reading a Letter by Vermeer, now in the Rijksmuseum. This fetched far less than his best shells in the auctions of his collection after his death.[2]
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