Agostino Aglio

Agostino Aglio (* December 15 1777 in Cremona, † January 30, 1857 in London) was an agent working in the British Isles originating from Lombardy painter, engraver and lithographer. He was a respected member of English society in the first half of the 19th century.

Life

First Aglio studied from 1789 at Giocondo Albertolli at the Accademia di Brera, and later in Rome with Luigi Campovecchio. There he learned in 1799 the English architect and antiquary William Wilkins ( 1778-1839 ) know. Both went on a three year journey to Greece and Egypt, to gather material for a book series to antiques. 1803 Aglio went at the invitation Wilkins to England, where he became characters Assisstent at Caius College, Cambridge, completed only once in the following year, but moved to London, where he continued working with Wilkins, a Fellow of the College.

In a 1809 undertaken Ireland trip he made landscape images from the Killarney area, which were published as Twelve Pictures of Killarney. It dealt, one of the first in the British Isles, at the beginning of the 1820s with the lithograph. He was pretty successful and was allowed in 1823 King George IV portray. Also found in various collections landscape paintings Aglios that which John Constable's very similar.

On March 16, 1805 he married Letizia Clarke, from this marriage was Agostino Aglio forth, who was also an artist. Aglio was buried in Highgate Cemetery.

Work (selection)

During seem to have received any up in the presence of his frescoes - except the assigned painting of the staircase and the new room of the Monastery of Bretton Hall ( West Yorkshire ) and perhaps Woolley Hall - a part of his watercolors and drawings have received so for example, three sketchbooks at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the printed lithographs.

Interior decorations and frescoes

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 in Woolley Hall, Yorkshire, London, 1821.
• Charles West Cope: Views of Bolton Abbey and Its Environs, London 1822.
• In 1825 he drew up templates for ten illustrations in George Sinclair's Hortus Ericaeus Woburniensis.
• In the same year he got a job with Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough work, for his work Antiquities of Mexico, he created thousands of color lithographs, including the Dresden Codex.
• Agostino Aglio. Studies of Various Trees and Forest Scenery, 1831 or 1837 (two numbers )