Augustus Wall Callcott

Sir Augustus Wall Callcott RA ( born February 20, 1779 Kensington, † November 25, 1844 ) was a British painter.

Callcott was formed by Gaspard Poussin and Aelbert Jacobsz. Cuyp and led by these models from admirable landscapes and seascapes. " The Tower of the water side " (1821 ) and a "view of Trent " (1831 ) made ​​a sensation; as a " Dutch coast on which fishermen are women with some men ."

Callcott was 1806 " Associate " is selected ( ARA) and 1810 and a full member ( Royal Academician ) of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1837, he was knighted by Queen Victoria and took over in 1843 from Walter Seguier the office of conservator 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 on 25 November 1844 in Kensington.

Reception

Under Callcotts landscapes, there are many Italian, English, Belgian and German regions, all with characteristic figures. Particularly well get him smugglers.

Even in his genre paintings express the figures nowhere affectation, and the action occurs clearly, how he ever caught at his pictures not by effect. The coloring is always fresh and shiny, because Callcott loved the serenity; therefore the spell he knew to put in his heaven and in the silver tone of its waters.

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