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CALLCOTT, SIR AUGUSTUS WALL(1779-1844)

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CALLCOTT, See also:SIR See also:AUGUSTUS See also:WALL(1779-1844) , See also:English landscape painter, was See also:born at See also:Kensington in 1779 and died there in 1844. His first study was See also:music; and he sang for several years in the See also:choir of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. But at the See also:age of twenty he had determined to give up music, and had exhibited his first See also:painting at the Royal See also:Academy. He gradually See also:rose to distinction, and was elected an See also:associate in 1807 and an academician in 1810. In 1827 he received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood; and, seven years later, was appointed surveyor of the royal pictures. His two See also:principal subject pictures—" See also:Raphael and the Fornarina," and " See also:Milton dictating to his Daughters," are much inferior to his landscapes, which are placed in the highest class by their refined See also:taste and quiet beauty. His wife, MARIA, See also:Lady Callcott (1786-1844), whom he married in 1827, was a daughter of See also:Admiral Dundas and widow of See also:Captain See also:Thomas See also:Graham, R.N. (d. 1822). With her first See also:husband she travelled in See also:India, See also:South See also:Africa and South See also:America, where she acted for some See also:time as teacher of Donna Maria, who became See also:queen of See also:Portugal in 1826; and in the See also:company of her second husband she spent much time in the south of See also:Europe. She published accounts of her visits to India (1812), and to the environs of See also:Rome (1820); See also:Memoirs of Poussin (1820); a See also:History of See also:France; a History of See also:Spain (1828); Essays toward a History of Painting (1836); Little See also:Arthur's History of See also:England (1836); and the Scripture Herbal (1842).

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