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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 choir of See also: Westminster Abbey
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But at the 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 associate in 1807 and an academician in 1810
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In 1827 he received the 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 taste and quiet beauty
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His wife, MARIA, Lady Callcott (1786-1844), whom he married in 1827, was a daughter of See also: Admiral Dundas and widow of Captain See also: Thomas
See also: Graham, R.N
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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
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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 Arthur's History of See also: England (1836); and the Scripture Herbal (1842)
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