Richard Haydock
(1569 or 1570-circa 1642), Physician and engraverSitter in 1 portrait
Artist associated with 7 portraits
The physician Richard Haydock had an amateur interest in the visual arts and taught himself engraving. His translation of the Italian author Paolo Lomazzo's Trattato dell'Arte (1584) was one of the earliest books on the visual arts to be published in English. It includes a portrait of Haydock at the base and a profile portrait of Lomazzo above.
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Anthony Houghton Brown
02 February 2016, 23:48
The original of the Erasmus Williams engraving is in the parish church at Tingewick Buckingham. It is set into the wall as a memorial brass as he was priest of this church having been a Fellow of New College Oxford (with Richard Haydocke). Tingewick is in this colleges patronage.