The Biographical Dictionary, Vol. 1: Of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Aggas, robert, commonly called Au gus, an English landscape painter who lived in London during the reigns of James I. And Charles I. Graham, in his English School, terms Aggas a good landscape painter, both in oil and in distemper, and skilful in architecture, in which he painted many scenes for the playhouse in Covent Garden, or rather the theatre in Dorset Gardens, which Walpole supposes to he meant. Aggas died in London, in 1679, aged about 60 he was probably descended from Radulph or Edward Aggas. Few of his works are extant the best is a landscape presented by him to the Painter stainers' Company, in whose hall it is still pieserved. (walpole, Anecdotes of Painting in England.) R. N. W.

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