Sir Augustus Wall Callcott

CALLCOTT, SIR AUGUSTUS WALL English landscape painter, was born at Kensington in 1779 and died there in 1844. His first study was music ; but by the age of 20 he had determined to give up music, and had exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy. He became R.A. in 181o, was knighted in 1827, and in 1834 was appointed surveyor of the royal pictures.

His wife,

MARIA, Lady Callcott (1785-1842), whom he married in 1827, was a daughter of Admiral Dundas and widow of Captain Thomas Graham, R.N. (d. 1822). She published accounts of her visits to India (1812) and to the environs of Rome (1820) ; Memoirs of Poussin (1820) ; a History of France; a History of Spain (1828) ; Essays toward a History of Painting (1836) ; Little Arthur's History of England (1836) ; and the Scripture Herbal (1842) ; etc.