held in most esteem. On the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, Callcott received the honour of knighthood. In that year he departed from his usual class of subjects, and exhibited a picture of Raffaelle and the Fornarina, with life-size figures, finished with great care, which was engraved by Lumb Stocks for the Art Union of London in 1843. This and Milton dictating to his Daughters, exhibited in 1840, were the most important of his figure paintings, of which rare class of his work the South Kensington Museum (Sheepshanks Collection) (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) contains two specimens, Anne Page and Slender and Falstaff and Simple. The museum also possesses several landscapes in oil and sketches in watercolour, etc. The figures in his landscapes were often important parts of the composition, and were always gracefully designed and happily placed, as, for instance, in Dutch Peasants returning from Market. In 1843 Callcott succeeded William Seguier as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures. He died on 25 November 1844 and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery. There are qualities in Callcott's work which gained the admiration of J. M. W. Turner and Thomas Stothard in his day. He was generous in his patronage of younger artists. Family His wife, Maria was a writer on art and travel. His brother, John Wall Callcott, was a noted composer. References External links A W Callcott online (ArtCyclopedia) Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections 18th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English painters English landscape painters Royal Academicians 1779 births 1844 deaths People from Kensington Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery Surveyors of the Queen's Pictures Knights Bachelor 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English male artists