Augustus Wall Callcott
Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA (born February 20, 1779 in Kensington , † November 25, 1844 there ) was a British painter.
Callcott was formed after Gaspard Poussin and Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp and executed splendid landscapes and seascapes based on these models. “The Tower from the Water Side” (1821) and a “View of Trient” (1831) caused a sensation; also a "Dutch coast on which fisher women stand with some men".
Callcott was 1810 1806 "Associate" (ARA) and a full member (Royal Academician) of the Royal Academy of Arts elected in London, in 1837 he was Queen Victoria to Knight Bachelor beaten and took over in 1843, succeeding Walter Seguier the post of curator of the Royal Collection of paintings ( Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures ). Callcott was married to the travel writer and botanist Maria Callcott . He died in Kensington on November 25, 1844.
reception
Callcott's landscapes include many Italian, English, Belgian, and German areas, all with characteristic figures. Surreptitious traffickers do particularly well.
In his genre pictures, too, the figures do not express affectation anywhere, and the plot clearly emerges, as he did not seek for effect in his pictures. The coloring is always fresh and brilliant, for Callcott loved serenity; hence the magic that he knew how to place in his sky and in the silver tone of his waters.
literature
- William Cosmo Monkhouse: Callcott, Augustus Wall . In: Leslie Stephen (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 8: Burton - Cantwell. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1886, p. 256 (English).
- James Dasforne: Pictures by Sir Augustus W. Callcott . Virtue Books, London 1875 (with Callcott's biography).
Web links
- Royal Academy of Arts database entry , accessed May 26, 2013
- Sir Augustus Wall Callcott in ArtCyclopedia
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Callcott, Augustus Wall |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1779 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kensington , England , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 25, 1844 |
| Place of death | Kensington , England , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |