Augostino Carlini or Agostino Carlini (c. 1718 – 15 August 1790) was an Italian sculptor and painter, who was born in
Genoa
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but settled in
England
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. He was also one of the founding members of the
Royal Academy
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[ in 1768.
]
Life
He features in a group portrait, by Johann Zoffany, of the founders, and is one of three sitters (with Francesco Bartolozzi
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Early life
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and Giovanni Battista Cipriani) in a 1777 portrait displayed in the National Portrait Gallery in London
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.[ 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 ]Giuseppe Ceracchi
Giuseppe Ceracchi (also known as ''Giuseppe Cirachi'') (4 July 1751 – 30 January 1801) was an Italian sculptor, active in a Neoclassic style in Italy, England and the nascent United States, who was a passionate republican during the American a ...
at Somerset House, and on statues at Custom House in Dublin
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. He is particularly noted for various church monuments, including a memorial to Lady Sophia Petty at All Saints' Parish Church, High Wycombe
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, Buckinghamshire
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, and one commissioned by Joseph Damer in 1775 to commemorate his wife Caroline, which stands in the north transept of Milton Abbey
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in Dorset
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.
Also in 1775, Carlini was commissioned by Dr William Hunter, the first Professor of Anatomy
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at the Royal Academy schools, to make a cast of the flayed
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Scope
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corpse of a recently executed
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smuggler
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There are various ...
. The figure was posed as a Roman
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
*''Epistle to the Romans'', shortened to ''Romans'', a letter ...
statue, the "Dying Gaul
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Signs of dying ...
", 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.[Dictionary of British Sculptors, 1660 -1851, Rupert Gunnis]
Works
* Statue of his friend, Dr Joseph Ward
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(1760) (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum
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)
* Statuary group, "Maritime Power and Riches" (1768) (several copies, including the Royal Academy, London and Windsor Castle
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)
* Monument to the Countess of Shelbourne, High Wycombe
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(1771)
* Statue of Lady Bingley, Bramham Park
Bramham Park is a Grade I listed 18th-century country house in Bramham, between Leeds and Wetherby, in West Yorkshire, England.
The house, constructed of magnesian limestone ashlar with stone slate roofs in a classical style, is built to a li ...
(1771)
* Bust of George III, Burlington House
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(1773)
* Monument to the Earl and Countess of Dorchester, Milton Abbey
Milton Abbey school is an independent school for day and boarding pupils in the village of Milton Abbas, near Blandford Forum in Dorset, in South West England. It has 224 pupils , in five houses: Athelstan, Damer, Hambro, Hodgkinson and Tregonw ...
(1775)
* Various statues for Somerset House (1776–78)
* Eight statues for Dublin Custom House (1783) (destroyed in the uprising of 1916)
References
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1718 births
1790 deaths
18th-century Genoese people
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
18th-century Italian sculptors
Italian male sculptors
Italian Baroque painters
Quadratura painters
Royal Academicians
Keepers of the Royal Academy
Italian expatriates in England
18th-century Italian male artists