- Agostino Carlini
Agostino Carlini (1718?-August 1790) was an Italian sculptor and painter, who was born in
Genoa but settled inEngland .He was also one of the founder members of the
Royal Academy in 1768. He features in a group portrait, byJohann Zoffany , of the founders, and is one of three sitters (withFrancesco Bartolozzi andGiovanni Battista Cipriani ) in a 1777 [http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?search=ss&sText=Agostino+Carlini&LinkID=mp00752&rNo=3&role=sit portrait] byJohn Francis Rigaud , displayed in the National Portrait Gallery inLondon . He was Keeper of the Royal Academy from 1783 until his death in 1790. He exhibited a portrait in oil in 1776. He died inLondon .He worked, with fellow Italian sculptor
Giuseppe Ceracchi atSomerset House , and on statues at Custom House inDublin . He is particularly noted for various church monuments, including a memorial to Lady Sophia Petty at All Saints' Parish Church,High Wycombe ,Buckinghamshire , and one commissioned byJoseph Damer in 1775 to commemorate his wife Caroline, which stands in the north transept ofMilton Abbey inDorset .Also in 1775, Carlini was commissioned by Dr William Hunter, first Professor of
Anatomy at the Royal Academy schools, to make a cast of the flayed corpse of a recently executedsmuggler . The figure was posed as a Roman statue, the "Dying Gaul ", and given the pseudo-classical title "Smugglerius".References
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