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(1) Sir Augustus Wall Callcott
(b London, 20 Feb 1779, d London, 2 Nov 1844). Though originally intended for a musical career, he entered the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1797 and studied with the portrait painter John Hoppner. His first Academy exhibits were portraits, but by the beginning of the 19th century he had turned to landscape. In 1801 Callcott was a member of the Sketching Society (also known as The Brothers), and some of his earliest landscapes were watercolours. He produced three for Edward, Viscount Lascelles (d 1820), in 1804, but he preferred to paint ideal and picturesque landscapes in oils than to work on topographical watercolours. From 1805 he developed a rustic picturesque style dependent on Dutch artistic traditions and on Gainsborough that immediately proved popular with the major patrons of the day, including Sir John Leicester, Richard Payne Knight and Sir Richard Colt Hoare.
Part of the Callcott family
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