Agostino Aglio Art

Agostino Aglio was born on December 15, 1777, in Cremona, Italy. He was an Italian painter, draftsman, engraver and lithographer. Son of Gaetano and Anna Maria Mondoni, he was sent to Milan in 1789 to study with Giocondo Albertolli and then in Rome with the landscape artist Campovecchio Mantovano. In 1798, he volunteered in the Lombard Legion of the Cisalpine Republic. From 1799–1802, he traveled to Greece and Egypt with the architect William Wilkins, who invited him to England. He settled in England in 1803 and two years later he married Letitia Clarke. He decorated churches, theaters and villas, executed two portraits of Queen Victoria and several landscape paintings in watercolor. In 1849, he was struck by paralysis and continued to work with his left hand. Many of his paintings are kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He died on January 30, 1857, in London.