Irene Duclos

Timeline

Born, likely in Fucceccio, where her father Giuseppe Parenti was an artist.
Married the painter Giovanni Battista Duclos (d. 1782?) and traveled to Rome to study encaustic painting.
Became a member of the Academia dell’Arcadia, a literary society established in Rome in 1690.
Studied geometry, anatomy, and physics with the Jesuit Luciano Germano Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich (1711–1787) at University of Pavia.
Made her first copy of a work in the Uffizi, having received permission from the director, Raimondo Cocchi (1735–1775).
Began work on her copy of Andrea del Sarto’s Madonna del Sacco.
Admitted to the court of Pietro Leopold, Grand Duke of Tuscany and elected to the Accademia del Disegno, Florence, as “Accademico Professore.” Her copy of Sarto’s Madonna del Sacco went on view at the Palazzo Pitti, where it remained until 1863.
Took on the English painter Emma Jane Greenland (1760/61–1838) as a student.