Edward Calvert
Illustration — Cyrene and Cattle by Edward Calvert (1830s or 1840s) Edward Calvert (20 September 179914 July 1883) was an English printmaker and painter.
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Edward Calvert
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- Born
- 1799. · Appledore.
- Died
- 1883. · London.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Great Britain and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
- Languages
- English.
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Illustration — Cyrene and Cattle by Edward Calvert (1830s or 1840s) Edward Calvert (20 September 179914 July 1883) was an English printmaker and painter.
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Edward Calvert (1799–1883) was a draftsperson, lithographer and painter, among other activities, of British and British nationality. The draftsperson was born in Appledore and died in London. Edward Calvert was a member of Ancients.
Languages used include English. Works are held at Auckland Art Gallery, Fitzwilliam Museum and Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others.
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Early life
Early life
Edward Calvert was born in Appledore, near Bideford in Devon, the son of Captain Roland Calvert. After a spell in the Navy he studied art at Plymouth and the Royal Academy Schools (1824). His early visionary work was greatly inspired by William Blake, and he became a member of the Blake-influenced group known as The Ancients which met at Samuel Palmer's in Shoreham, Kent in the later 1820s and early 1830s. • Illustration — The Brook (1829), Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums
Work
Work
Amongst Calvert's finest works are exquisite miniature wood engravings which date from this early period; his wood and copper engravings all date from 1827–31, but were only seen by friends until published by his son in 1893 in an edition of 350. He also made etchings. In 1844 he visited Greece.
Personal life and later years
Personal life and later years
Much of his subsequent life was spent with his wife Mary, in Dalston and nearby Hackney, a short distance from London. His work from this later period (not considered his best) shows a Classical influence. Edward Calvert and his wife are buried at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London; the headstone reads He was welcomed in Helicon.
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Life and career
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1799
Edward Calvert was born on 20 September 1799.
1883
Edward Calvert died on 1 January 1883.
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Appledore.
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Legacy
The British Museum has some 65 of his drawings, and about 40 prints, as well as many of the printing blocks and plates for them. His third son, Samuel Calvert, was an artist and engraver active in Australia and produced a memoir of his father in 1893.
The Bride, 1829, by Edward Calvert
Edward Calvert · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
The Brook, 1829, by Edward Calvert
Edward Calvert · The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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scholarly publication
- Calvert, Edward (1799–1883), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2017
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q3719940: Edward Calvert
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- 1.not the other Appledore, Devon: Appledore, Mid Devon, near Tiverton.
- 2.Mr. John Calvert, Table Talk (Melbourne), 1 August 1890, page 13.
- 3.British Museum biography
- 4.British Museum online collection database
- 5.Calvert, Samuel, A memoir of Edward Calvert, artist, 1893. Yale Center for British Art.
- 6.Literature: An Unknown Artist, The Australasian (Melbourne), 2 December 1893, page 36.
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