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López Enguidanos (y Perles), Tomás
(b Valencia, 1760 or 1773; d Madrid, 1812 or 1814). Spanish printmaker and illustrator. He studied at the Academia de S Carlos, Valencia, and the Real Academia de S Fernando, Madrid, obtaining prizes in 1781 and 1784. In 1804 he was given the title of ‘grabador de Cámara honorario’, and in the same year he was appointed académico de S Carlos. López Enguidanos engraved portraits of Manuel Godoy, Prince de la Paz and Ferdinand VII, and he contributed to the illustrations of many important works published in Madrid: Las vistas de los puertos de España (1785); Icones et descriptiones plantarum (1791–1801) by Antonio Cavanilles; Los quatro libros de arquitectura (Sp. edn of 1797) by Andrea Palladio; Don Quixote (edn of 1797); Vistas de El Escorial (1800–07). His other prints include Roman Charity (1809) after the painting (1670s; destr. 1845) by Murillo. His brothers José López Enguidanos (1760–1812) and Vicente López Enguidanos were painters and engravers.
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