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He was also one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768 . He features in a group portrait, by Johann Zoffany , of the founders, and is one of three sitters (with Francesco Bartolozzi and Giovanni Battista Cipriani ) in a 1777 portrait by John Francis Rigaud , displayed in the National Portrait Gallery in London . He was Keeper of the Royal Academy from 1783 until his death in 1790. He worked, with fellow Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi at Somerset House , and on statues at Custom House in Dublin . 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 , 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". |
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