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Surname	Le Piper	Alternative Surname	Lepipre
First Name	Francis	Initial of Surname	L
Year of Birth/Baptism	1640	Flourished
Year of Death	1698
Biographical Details	Le Piper was the son of a wealthy merchant who, having substantial private means, took up art as an amusement. Most of his works were drawings, paintings and engravings, but ‘in the latter part of his life he apply'd himself to the Study and Practice of Modelling in wax, in basso-relievo, in which he did abundance of things with good success. He often said he wish’d he had thought of it sooner, for that sort of work suited better with his genius than any. Had he lived longer he would have arriv’d to a great Perfection in it’. Literary References: Buckeridge 1706, 453-7; Gunnis 1968, 238-9; Pyke 1973, 79; ODNB (Cust rev. Griffiths)