Lot 234: AGOSTINO MARIA AGLIO 1777-1857

MATERIAL/MEDIUM
sixteen black and white chalk, five black white and red chalk, three black chalk, two pencil and one watercolour, one on tracing paper

including portraits of Benjamin West, Sir Charles D'Oyly, Sheridan Knowles, Alexander, Duke of Beaufort, Lord Beresford, Thomas Moore, Sir Walter Scott (3), Bloomfield Lord Bishop of London, George IV, Lord Castelreagh, Mr Sharff of Manchester, John Thorpe of Manchester, Mr Bradley of Manchester, George Thorpe, Mr Burke of Manchester, Mr Flemming of Manchester and others

twenty-seven, eighteen signed, twenty inscribed with title

each approximately 39.5 by 31.5 cm., 15 1/2 by 12 1/2 in.

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

QUANTITY: 27

It is probable that these portraits are based on the plaster casts by the studio of Chantrey now in the Ashmoleon Museum