Agostino Aglio

Agostino Aglio studied at Brera Academy. Training under Giocondo Albertolli is recorded. The recorded working language is English and Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome, Egypt and Greece. Work by Agostino Aglio is recorded in the collections of Salford Museum and Art Gallery and Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.

• Illustration — Grave of Agostino Aglio in Highgate Cemetery He was born at Cremona. He initially studied at the Brera Academy under Giocondo Albertolli, and then traveled to Rome to work under Campovecchio Mantovano. In 1803 he came to England to assist William Wilkins, the well-known architect, in the production of his Antiquities of Magna Graecia which was published in 1807. For many years Aglio was employed in the decoration of theaters, churches, and country mansions both in England and Ireland. In 1819, he was employed, along with the architect Giovanni Battista Comolli, in painting vast frescoes for the Roman Catholic Church of St Mary Moorfields, London. Between the years 1820 and 1830, he published several books on art including a Collection of Capitals and Friezes drawn from the Antique and Antiquities of Mexico illustrated with over 1000 plates, drawn from the originals. He also painted a portrait of Queen Victoria, which was engraved. A street in modern-day Cremona is named after the artist. He died on 30 January 1857 and was buried on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.