Agostino Carlini
Augostino Carlini or Agostino Carlini Royal Academy[1] in 1768.
Life
He features in a group portrait, by
He was Keeper of the Royal Academy from 1783 until his death in 1790. He exhibited a portrait in oil in 1776.He worked, with fellow Italian sculptor
Milton Abbey in Dorset
.
Also in 1775, Carlini was commissioned by Dr
smuggler. The figure was posed as a Roman statue, the "Dying Gaul", and given the pseudo-classical title "Smugglerius
".
He died unmarried at Carlisle Street, London, leaving all his estate to "Elizabeth Watton, spinster", his maid and housekeeper.[2]
Works
- Statue of his friend, Dr Joseph Ward (1760) (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum)
- Statuary group, "Maritime Power and Riches" (1768) (several copies, including the Royal Academy, London and Windsor Castle)
- Monument to the Countess of Shelbourne, High Wycombe (1771)
- Statue of Lady Bingley, Bramham Park (1771)
- Bust of George III, Burlington House (1773)
- Monument to the Earl and Countess of Dorchester, Milton Abbey(1775)
- Various statues for Somerset House (1776–78)
- Eight statues for Dublin Custom House (1783) (destroyed in the uprising of 1916)
References
- ^ National Portrait Gallery
- ^ Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660 -1851, Rupert Gunnis
- Bryan, Michael (1886). Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. I: A-K. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 233.
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