Nicolas de Poilly the Younger

Nicolas de Poilly, also called Nicolas de Poilly the Younger, Nicolas de Poilly jeune, or Nicolas II de Poilly, was an academically trained French artist who won the Prix de Rome for painting in 1698. Despite an impressive start, he largely abandoned painting for drawing and became an engraver like his father, his uncle François de Poilly, and several others in the Poilly family.