Maria, Lady Callcott

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Maria, Lady Callcott

by Sir Thomas Lawrence
oil on canvas, 1819
23 1/2 in. x 19 1/2 in. (597 mm x 495 mm)
Bequeathed by Elizabeth (née Rigby), Lady Eastlake, 1894
Primary Collection
NPG 954

On display in Room 17 on Floor 3 at the National Portrait Gallery

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  • Maria, Lady Callcott (1785-1842), Writer; former wife of Thomas Graham, and later wife of Sir Augustus Wall Callcott. Sitter in 1 portrait.

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  • Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), Portrait painter, collector and President of the Royal Academy. Artist or producer associated with 696 portraits, Sitter in 25 portraits.

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Painted in Rome in Eastlake's studio, the work of two hours, and exchanged by Lawrence for some of Eastlake's sketches of Roman scenes.

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  • Place made: Italy (Rome, Italy)

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Current affairs

Peterloo Massacre leaves eleven dead and four hundred wounded as crowds, gathered to hear radical Henry Hunt call for reform of the House of Commons, are forcibly dispersed.
Six Acts are passed, stiffening the 1795 Treason Act and introducing a tax on the periodical press which was viewed as seditious.

Art and science

Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind during a year of extraordinary creativity in which he also finishes Prometheus Unbound.
Lord Byron publishes his tour-de-force Don Juan; one man's mock-epic odyssey through a world without fixed principles.
First ship with a steam engine crosses the Atlantic in twenty-eight days.

International

Thomas Jefferson establishes the University of Virginia.
Royal Navy anti-slave squadron is set up to patrol the West African coastline.
French physician Rene Laennac invents the stethoscope.

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Nara Marques

05 October 2016, 04:31

Lady Maria (Dundas Graham) Callcott was a writer and an artist (with 16 books). A friend of Thomas Lawrence. He painted it in Italy, when she was travelling with her husband and Charles Eastlake. She wrote a book about Italy and Eastlake drew the illustrations.

CLAVILIER Denise Anne

20 May 2016, 20:25

In 1819, she was not yet Lady Callcott but Mrs Graham, née Dundas, for marrying Mr Graham. Graham died in Pacific Ocean, near Chile, in 1822, on board HMS Doris. She wrote a Journal from her experience in South America and published it on her return in London.