Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (1779–1844)

• Was an English landscape painter.
• Callcott was born at Kensington Gravel Pits, edge of London.
• His first study was music and he sang for several years in the choir of Westminster Abbey.
• At the age of twenty he had became a student of the Royal Academy, and began his artistic career as a painter of portraits under the tuition of John Hoppner.
• From 1805 to 1810 he exhibited about four pictures a year, in 1811 ten pictures, and in 1812, six.
• In 1830 he began to exhibit Italian compositions, and after this year the subjects of his pictures were generally foreign.
• On the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, Callcott received the honour of knighthood.
• In 1843 Callcott succeeded William Seguier as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.
• He died on 25 November 1844 and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery.
• His wife, Maria, was a writer on art and travel.

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