Edward Calvert (painter)
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Edward Calvert (20 September 1799{{snd}}14 July 1883) was an English printmaker and painter.
Biography
= Early life =
Edward Calvert was born in Appledore, near Bideford in Devon, the son of Captain Roland Calvert.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRwHAAAAMAAJ&q=Edward+Calvert+Appledore not the other Appledore, Devon]: Appledore, Mid Devon, near Tiverton.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147282573 Mr. John Calvert], Table Talk (Melbourne), 1 August 1890, page 13. 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.
= 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.[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=130282 British Museum biography] He also made etchings. In 1844 he visited Greece.
= 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.
= 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.[https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_results.aspx?searchText=Edward+Calvert&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&productionInfo=on&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx¤tPage=3 British Museum online collection database]
His third son, Samuel Calvert, was an artist and engraver active in Australia and produced a memoir of his father in 1893.{{cite web |title=Calvert, Samuel, A memoir of Edward Calvert, artist, 1893 |url=https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3182875 |website=Yale Center for British Art|accessdate=28 March 2022}}[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138111095 Literature: An Unknown Artist], The Australasian (Melbourne), 2 December 1893, page 36.
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Category:Artists from Bideford
Category:19th-century English painters
Category:English male painters
Category:English romantic painters
Category:British wood engravers