Agostino Aglio (painter)

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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

"The Abbey on Inisfallen Island" was created during his trip to Ireland.

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

Engraving by S. Melville, in the background the Aglios fresco in the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary Moorfields

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)

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personal data
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