Agostino Aglio Sr. was born at Cremona in 1777 and came to England in 1803 at the invitation of Mr William Wilkins (architect). He married Letitia Clarke in 1805.
His work includes frescos of walls and ceilings, drawings, mezzotints, aquatints engravings and lithographs. He became paralysed in 1849 and then produced a number of watercolour paintings with his left hand.

That he was well respected by Italy and particularly Cremona is demonstrated by the biographical references to him and to his having a road in the town named after him. Federico Sacchi wrote his biography in 1868 and  there is  reference to him in the Alphabetic Biography of Painters, Sculptors and Architects from Cremona 1827 by Giuseppe Grasselli
	This road is on the West Side of Cremona Cemetary. Thanks to people in Creomona who directed me to this road.
Many of the above details came from research in Cremona during  2007

Between 1824 and 1830 he worked with Lord Kingsborough   on a set of seven books called on the Antiquities of Mexico. Sir Thomas Phillipps was involved in this project. These books were published but the process resulted in bankruptcy for Aglio and Kingsborough who died 1837 after being in debtors jail. A very sad affair. Summary of the Story.  

Agostino was the Father of Augustine Aglio Junior, who painted watercolours 
and the grandfather of Marion Aglio who married William Joseph Dibdin.

Designs for the decoration of the Olympic Theatre in Old Wych Street (later Aldwych)

Aglio's School of Ornaments

200 Neoclassical Designs and Motifs  ( now published by Dover Books)

Belzoni, G: City of Baccus on the Lake Moeris. Illustrated by Aglio. 1820.

Belzoni, G. View of the Interior of the Temple of Carnak. Illustrated by Aglio. John Murray. 1820. 

Antiquities of Mexico

The Enthronisation of Queen Victoria

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