Agrelo, Emilio Cornelio
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Argentinian, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 16 September 1856, in Buenos Aires; died 16 September 1933, in Buenos Aires.
Engraver.
Emilio Carnelio Agrelo was self-taught and produced a large number of etchings. He introduced etching to Argentina in the last decade of the 19th century, before which the technique had been unknown. Emilio Agrela was obliged to pass his commissions on to artists in Paris. There is a room named after him at the national museum in Buenos Aires....
