Agostino Carlini

Augostino Carlini or Agostino Carlini RA (c. 1718 – 15 August 1790) was an Italian sculptor and painter, who was born in Genoa but settled in England.

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.

Also in 1775, Carlini was commissioned by Dr William Hunter, the first Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy schools, to make a cast of the flayed corpse of a recently executed smuggler.

The figure was posed as a Roman statue, the "Dying Gaul", 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.