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Augustine Aglio (Junior)
1817-1885
Photographer & Painter
Sculptor & Architect
Son of
Agostino Aglio the Artist
and Letitia Clarke
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Aglio Museum of interesting bits
and pieces
First Aglio
Scrapbook probably assembled by Augustine
Second Aglio
Scrapbook probably assembled by Augustine
Born 1816/17 Kennington Middlesex
Married 7 February 1846 Margaret Absolon sister of John
Absolon
Died 11 Mar 1885
Sister - Mary Elizabeth Aglio
Sister - Emma Walsh Aglio
In 1851 A.Aglio had a visiter Esthey ? Aglio born about 1827
There is reference
to George H Aglio as Augustine's brother born about 1813 ?? - unsure
of source of this - probably incorrect information. There
is a record of George Aglio born 1854 in Newington
Children
Augustine Joseph Aglio born March 1847 died
1848
Letitia M Aglio born Sept 1948 - Great Aunt Letitia
who married Frederick Pape [ In 1881 she lived with Uncle John Absolon,
the painter, at 106
Palace Gardens Terrace - In 1891 she was married and was living at 105
Cavendish Road with a family around her including her own mother and her
sister in law ]
Marian Aglio, (or Marion) born 14 Jan 1851 -
Christened 29 Aug 1852 Old Church, Saint Pancras,London, England, who
married William Joseph Dibdin.
Mysie (Mytie Mydie) E M Aglio born about 1853
The three girls were known as the Aglio sisters and Letitia
later owned a house in Sutton
which she called Cremona, 105 Cavendish
Road. This was later passed on two of WJ Dibdin's daughters who rented it to the Montford Family on their return from
Australia after Paul Montford's death in 1938.
Note:
The full details of the houses owned and lived in by the Aglios and
Dibdins is still a little unclear.
In 1851 the family lived at 4 Oval Road near Regents Park
with a servant girl Elizabeth White
aged 19
In 1871 The family lived at 87 St.Pauls Road with a Mysie
Absolon then 5 years old and Frederick Pape, a boarder aged 26 later to
marry Letitia Aglio.
There was also one other in the house Fanny Lenington
listed as 18 years old servant.
It seemed that Augustinus Aglio was also a photographer
and architect from the following article From
PhotoLondon
Aglio, Ludovico Cajetanus Augustinus
Born 1816. Died 11/3/1885.
Biography
Aglio, Ludovico Cajetanus Augustinus
Born Kensington October 1816.
Christened October 16 1816 Hammersmith.
Md Margaret Absolon (daughter of John Absolon (q.v.) February 7 1846
in St Pancras.
Son of Agostino Aglio (1777 - 1857), engraver and lithographer.
3 daughters.
Partnership with Hugh Wolfgang de Mansfield Absolon, as Aglio &
Absolon.
Absolon Family
STUDIO: 201 Piccadilly, Westminster 1852 - 1853. Successors to
Friedrich Droege.
Exhibited at various galleries 1836 - 1875. (including RA 1854 &
1864).
1851: as artist, painter, sculptor & architect 34 Sidney Street,
Brompton, Kensington.
As artist and drawing master 4 Oval Road, Camden Town, St Pancras 1858
- 1863.
At 87 St Paul's Road, Camden Town, St Pancras 1864 - 1881.
Died at 36 Gloucester Crescent, Regent's Park, St Pancras March 11
1885.
Sister Mary Elizabeth Aglio exhibited at RA 1851 from Sidney Street,
Brompton, Kensington.
LITERATURE: Alfred Yockney. The Aglio family in Apollo Vol 38 November
1943 pp 145 - 146; Boase
Vol 4; Graves.
See below
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It seems that Augustine Aglio (junior) was also a sculptor.
The
son of Agostino Aglio of 36 Newman Street, a painter who exhibited at
the Royal Academy, 1807-1834, in 1831 the younger Aglio received a
Silver Isis Medal from the Society of Arts for a bust, while in the
following year he exhibited a “bust of a gentleman” at the
Manchester Academy. |

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PLASTER BUST OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616)
AFTER
AUGOSTINO AGLIO (fl. 1831-1838)
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It is thought that he wrote a summary
history of his father and passed the information on to Frederico Sacchi who
wrote a biography of Agostino.
Information
regarding the connection between Aglio Absolon and Dibdin
Article by Yockney of
the Aglio Family
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