The Aglio Family
Little detail is known yet of the Aglio Family, however the following may put what is known in perspective. Agostino Aglio
Senior 1777-1857 Painter & Engraver was born at
Cremona and came to England in 1803 at the invitation of Mr Willaim
Wilkins (Architect). The Aglio name was used a middle name by a number of William Joseph Dibdin's family. Both Aglio Senior and Junior produced a considerable number of similar watercolour paintings. They can be told apart because Agostino (Augustine) (senior) worked in very high definition similar to that required for engraving work while Augustine (junior) produced in a slighter looser style. There is a noticeable difference between their signatures. Augustine Aglio Junior worked with Hugh Wolfgang de Mansfield Absolon, son of John Absolon the painter, as a commercial Photographer in Piccadilly. He painted in watercolour, produced sculpture and passed on a lot of detailed information to Agostino Aglio's Biographer, Federico Sacchi. He was married to John Absolon's daughter Margaret. It seems likely that he knew T.C.Dibdin who was born seven years before him. Subsequently the offspring of these two artists, Marion Aglio and William Joseph Dibdin married on 5th Sept. 1878. |
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