PAINTING Watercolor ~ HARBOR AT BRIGHTON, 1829 ~ dated British AGOSTINO AGLIO

Description: An interesting watercolor from Italian/British artist Agostino Aglio (1777-1857). The painting depicts a gentleman in top hat leaning against a dockside railing and observing sailboats in the harbor. The image measures 9 x 11 inches and it is tipped onto a sheet of white wove paper annotated at bottom in sepia "At Brighton 1829". With mat, the dimensions are 15 x 16 3/4 inches. The watercolor is not signed but is rendered on the reverse of a lithograph broadside for a set of Aglio's printed works. Aglio's artistic frugality could not let the fine wove paper of the unused broadsides go to waste and he used them for watercolor sketches. The British Museum has another Aglio watercolor on broadside reverse in its permanent collection: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1962-0714-5 Agostino Aglio (1777-1857) was a painter, decorator, and engraver. He was born at Cremona, Italy and initially studied at the Brea Academy under Giocondo Albertolli, and then travelled 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. (biography courtesy of Radnorshire Fine Arts Ltd.)

Price: 195 USD

Location: Brooksville, Florida

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