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Early Life and Artistic Formation John Francis Rigaud, a name resonating with the elegance of eighteenth-century British art, was born in Turin on May 18th, 1742. His lineage was steeped in mercantile tradition; his father, James Dutilh or Rigaud, hailed from a family of Protestant merchants who had fled Lyon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. This displacement shaped the family’s identity, adopting the maternal surname “Rig…
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