Maria, Lady Callcott
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© National Portrait Gallery, London
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
Sitterback to top
- Maria, Lady Callcott (1785-1842), Writer; former wife of Thomas Graham, and later wife of Sir Augustus Wall Callcott. Sitter in 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- 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.
This portraitback to top
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.
Linked publicationsback to top
- Birkett, Dea; Morris, Jan (foreword), Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers, 2004 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 7 July to 31 October 2004), p. 80
- Lydia Miller; Samira Ahmed, Inspirational Women: Rediscovering stories in Art, Science and Social Reform, 2022, p. 151
- Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 97
- Walker, Richard, Regency Portraits, 1985, p. 88
Events of 1819back to top
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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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.
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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.