Alexandre Marie Aguado, a Parisian banker, born at Seville, June 29, 1784, died April 14, 1842. In early life he joined the Napoleonic party in Spain, held a commission in the French army, and fought for Napoleon up to the battle of Leipsie, when he quitted the army, engaged in trade and banking, and in 1823 was appointed banker for the Spanish government at Paris. He was created a Spanish marquis by Ferdinand VII., and received from Otho of Greece the order of the Redeemer. He lived in great splendor, and died worth $12,000,000. He had a gallery of very fine pictures, which were engraved and published as the Galerie Aguado (Paris, 1837-'42).