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See also:SIR See also:AUGUSTUS See also:WALL See also:CALLCOTT (1779-1844)
, See also:English landscape painter, was See also:born at See also:Kensington in 1779 and died there in 1844
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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
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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
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He gradually See also:rose to distinction, and was elected an See also:associate in 1807 and an academician in 1810
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In 1827 he received the See also:honour of See also:knighthood; and, seven years later, was appointed surveyor of the royal pictures
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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
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His wife, MARIA, See also:Lady See also:Callcott (1786-1844), whom he married in 1827, was a daughter of See also:Admiral Dundas and widow of See also:Captain See also: |
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