Antique Sir Augustus Wall Callcott Returning from Market Hand Colored Engraving

Description

Framed late 19th century hand colored engraving titled "Returning from Market" after Sir Augustus Wall Callcott (original painting first exhibited in 1834), showing three women and a child crossing a stream in a country landscape with other figures. Framed in a simple beveled pine frame.

"Augustus Wall Callcott (1779 - 1844) was active/lived in United Kingdom. Callcott was an English landscape painter. He studied music and sang for the Westminster Abbey choir before enrolling at the Royal Academy in the late 1790s and realizing his passion for painting. His first artistic endeavors were portraits, but he soon transitioned to landscape painting, which became the focus of his career.

His elegant style and pleasing tones were noticed by many, and he was elected a royal academician at the Royal Academy in 1810. Because Callcott was so careful and detail-oriented with his landscapes, on average, only about five paintings a year could be exhibited. In addition to painting his own countryside, he traveled to France, Italy, and the Netherlands, adding variety to his picturesque compositions.

Callcott received the honor of knighthood in 1837. His work was admired by his famed contemporaries J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard, and remains important and revered in the landscape painting canon to this day.

Condition

Good Overall - Light wear to frame; slight discoloration to print

Dimensions

18.25" x 1.25" x 16.25" / Sans Frame - 9.5" x 6.75" (Width x Depth x Height)