Miguel Sorello

(b Barcelona, c. 1700; d Rome, 1765). Spanish engraver, active also in Italy. In 1724 he worked with Jakob Frey (1681-1752) in Rome, where he achieved a considerable reputation. He usually engraved compositions by other artists for Spanish and Italian clients, for example executing the portrait of Tom?s Ripoll (1729), following the composition of Hip?lito Rovira y Brocandel. He also produced devotional engravings, such as that of St Ignatius Loyola writing his Spiritual Exercises on the training of Jesuits in the presence of the Virgin. In 1739 Sorello returned to Barcelona, where he was influential in the renewal of Catalan engraving. After taking up permanent residence in Rome in 1747 he became an engraver for the Vatican, producing an engraving of St Anthony and a portrait of Father Prieto (1753), both of which exhibit fine technical qualities. Among his engravings showing archaeological discoveries are the Paintings of Herculaneum, published in Naples (1757-92).

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