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2 unusual facts about Agostino Carlini


Agostino Carlini

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 executed smuggler.

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 by Joseph Damer in 1775 to commemorate his wife Caroline, which stands in the north transept of Milton Abbey in Dorset.



see also

Joshua Ward

His full-length portrait by the sculptor Agostino Carlini (active 1725 - 53) is at the V & A Museum in London.