Agostino Aglio (painter)
Agostino Aglio (born December 15, 1777 in Cremona , † January 30, 1857 in London ) was a painter, engraver and lithographer from Lombardy who worked on the British Isles. He was a respected member of English society in the first half of the 19th century.
Life
First Aglio studied from 1789 with Giocondo Albertolli at the Accademia di Brera , later in Rome with Luigi Campovecchio . There he met the English architect and archaeologist William Wilkins (1778-1839) in 1799 . Both went on a three-year trip to Greece and Egypt to collect material for a series of books on antiquity. In 1803 Aglio went to England at the invitation of Wilkins, where he first became a drawing assistant at Caius College in Cambridge, but moved to London the following year, where he continued to work with Wilkins, a fellow of the college.
During a trip to Ireland in 1809, he made landscape pictures of the area around Killarney , which were published as Twelve Pictures of Killarney . He was one of the first in the British Isles to study lithography in the early 1820s . He was quite successful with this and was allowed to portray King George IV in 1823 . Aglio's landscape paintings, which are very similar to those of John Constable, are also found in various collections .
On March 16, 1805 he married Letizia Clarke, from this marriage arose Agostino Aglio , who was also an artist. Aglio was buried in Highgate Cemetery .
Work (selection)
While none of his frescoes seem to have survived to the present day - with the exception of the attributed painting of the stairwell and the New Room of the Convent of Bretton Hall ( West Yorkshire ) and perhaps Woolley Hall - some of his watercolors and drawings have survived, so for example three sketchbooks in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the printed lithographs .
Interior decorations and frescoes
- 1804 Interior decoration of the Royal Opera House (destroyed by fire in 1808)
- 1806 Interior decoration of the Theater Royal Drury Lane (destroyed by fire in 1809)
- 1807/08 frescoes in Woolley Hall, West Yorkshire
- 1811 Interior decoration of the Pantheon on Oxford Street (rebuilt 1833/34; demolished 1937)
- 1817 or 1819 fresco of the Calvary in the apse of St Mary Moorfields ' London Church (demolished in 1899)
- 1821 Theater curtain of the Theater Royal Haymarket (destroyed)
- 1822 and 1829 landscape frescoes in Woburn Abbey (Bedfordshire) (not preserved)
- 1831 to 1834 Commercial-themed interior decoration of Manchester Town Hall (destroyed in 1877)
- Late 1830s ceiling fresco in London's St John the Evangelist Church , Duncan Terrace ( Islington )
- Around the same time frescoes in St James's Church , Reading (not preserved)
- 1841 frescoes in the Anglican parish church in Leeds (not preserved)
- 1846 Encaustic work in a garden pavilion in the park of Buckingham Palace
- In 1849 he made interior decorations in the Olympic Theater together with his son Agostino Aglio (demolished in 1899)
Illustrations
- William Wilkins: Antiquities of Magna Graecia , London 1807.
- Agostino Aglio: Architectural ornaments: or, A collection of capitals, friezes, roses, entablatures, moldings, & c. drawn on stone, from the antique , London 1820.
- Agostino Aglio: To Godfrey Wentworth Junr. Esqre. this series of sketches of the interior & temporary decorations at Woolley-Hall, Yorkshire , London 1821.
- Charles West Cope: Views of Bolton Abbey and Its Environs , London 1822.
- In 1825 he developed templates for ten illustrations in George Sinclair's Hortus Ericaeus Woburniensis .
- In the same year he got a contract with Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough , for whose work Antiquities of Mexico he created a thousand color lithographs, including the Codex Dresdensis .
- Agostino Aglio: Studies of Various Trees and Forest Scenery , 1831 or 1837. (two numbers)
literature
- D. Trier: Aglio, Agostino (I) , in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon , Vol. 1, Leipzig, Munich 1992, pp. 520-521.
Web links
- Entry in the Dictionary of National Biography (English Wikisource)
- Entry in the online Treccani
- Entry in the Europeana
- Drafts ( memento from January 4, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) for the Olympic Theater
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Aglio, Agostino |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 15, 1777 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cremona |
DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1857 |
Place of death | London |