James Merigot (Jacques Mérigot): The Romantic Visionary of London Landscapes James Merigot (1760–1824), also Jacques Mérigot (or Jacques-François Mérigot II, J. Mérigot), was a French engraver and publisher who pursued most of his career in London. He was the son of Jacques-François Mérigot I, a Parisian publisher, and possessed an innate talent for capturing the beauty of the natural world through meticulous detail and atmospheric pe…