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Agostino Aglio (Cremona, 15 December 1777 – London, 30 January 1857) 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 to Rome with the landscape painter Campovecchio. Read the full biography

Agostino Aglio (Cremona, 15 December 1777 – London, 30 January 1857) 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 to Rome with the landscape painter Campovecchio. In 1798 he volunteered in the legion of the Cisalpine Republic and from 1799 to 1802 he traveled to Greece and Egypt with the architect William Wilkins, who invited him to England, where he settled from 1803; two years later he married Letitia Clarke. He decorated churches, theaters and villas, painted two portraits of Queen Victoria, and watercolor landscapes. In 1849 he suffered paralysis and continued to operate with his left hand. Numerous of his paintings are preserved in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.