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Nancy BaronPierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville Add article description Pierre-François Hugues, Baron d'Hancarville (Nancy 1719 – Padua 1805) was an art historian and historian of ideas. This article needs additional citations for verification. (March 2010) d'Hancarville by Zoffany, detail from "Charles Townley's Library" (circa 1782). Biography Pierre Francois Hugues was born in 1719 at Nancy, France, the son of a bankrupt cloth-merchant. He himself later added the title of ‘baron d'Hancarville’ to his name. An amateur art dealer, he introduced William Hamilton, British ambassador at Naples, to the Porcinari family, whose collection of antiquities Hamilton bought, and subsequently sold to the British Museum in London. With Hamilton Hugues compiled the Collection Of Etruscan, Greek And Roman Antiquities From The Cabinet… (Source: Wikipedia)
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