Agostino Aglio Sr. was born at Cremona in 1777 and came to England in 1803 at the invitation of Mr William Wilkins (architect). He married Letitia Clarke in 1805.
His work includes frescos of walls and ceilings, drawings, mezzotints, aquatints engravings and lithographs. He became paralysed in 1849 and then produced a number of watercolour paintings with his left hand.

That he was well respected by Italy and particularly Cremona is demonstrated by the biographical references to him and to his having a road in the town named after him. Federico Sacchi, arelation, wrote his biography in 1868 and  there is  reference to him in the Alphabetic Biography of Painters, Sculptors and Architects from Cremona, 1827 by Giuseppe Grasselli
	This road is on the West Side of Cremona Cemetary. Thanks to people in Cremona who directed me here.
Many of the above details came from research in Cremona during  2007

There is record the he lived at Edwardes Square, Kensington, for 1814 - 1820 and designed the gardens in the Square. His son Augustine was born during this period.

In 2012 the residence association of the Square were planing for a 200th  year celebration.

Between 1824 and 1830 he worked for Lord Kingsborough  on a set of seven books called on the Antiquities of Mexico. http://www.famsi.org/mayawriting/codices/pdf/Aglio-KingsboroughParisCodex.pdf

Sir Thomas Phillipps was involved in this project. These books were published but the process resulted in bankruptcy for Aglio and Kingsborough who died 1837 after being in debtors jail. A very sad affair. Summary of the Story.  

Between 1831 and 1834, he worked at Manchester Town Hall doing the inside decoration. It was during this time that bankruptcy occurred as a result of the Mexican Antiquities affair.

As seen from the autobiography and biographies, Agostino was a hard worker and prolific artist working still at the age of 69, with the help of his son on the decoration of the Olympic Theatre.

Soon after this he became paralysed and spent the last 5 years of his life painting watercolours with his left hand. He died at the age of 80 and is buried in Highgate cemetery

Agostino was the Father of Augustine Aglio Junior, who painted watercolours 
and the grandfather of Marion Aglio who married William Joseph Dibdin.