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| Giovanni Fratellini Portrait of Ignazio Enrico Hugford 1720s drawing British Museum |
Ignazio Enrico Hugford (1703-1778) was born at Pisa, son of a resident English watchmaker employed by the House of Medici. From an early age Ignazio Hugford apprenticed in local artists' studios, moving with something like inevitability into a busy career as an artist himself. The samples below show him contributing to an engraved portrait series depicting famous sculptors, painters and engravers from earlier and more glorious eras of Italian art. The set was published in Florence in twelve volumes between 1769 and 1775. Images of the selected hero-artists were mass-produced as prints, with designs based on pre-existing portraits. It was Hugford's job to translate one or more source-portraits into a detailed drawing that the engraver could interpret and follow.
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Daniele da Volterra ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Andrea del Sarto ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Marcantonio Raimondi ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Giulio Romano ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrcio Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Tintoretto ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Pietro da Cortona ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Agostino Carracci ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Guercino ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Giuseppe Maria Crespi ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Francesco Trevisani ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Pietro Testa ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Pier Francesco Mola ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |
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| Ignazio Enrico Hugford (draughtsman) Portrait of Salvator Rosa ca. 1769-75 engraving British Museum |