. In 1827 he received the honour of knighthood; and, seven years
later, was appointed surveyor of the royal pictures. His two principal
subject pictures--"Raphael and the Fornarina," and "Milton dictating to
his Daughters," are much inferior to his landscapes, which are placed in
the highest class by their refined taste and quiet beauty.

His wife, MARIA, Lady Callcott (1786-1844), whom he married in 1827, was
a daughter of Admiral Dundas and widow of Captain Thomas Graham, R.N.
(d. 1822). With her first husband she travelled in India, South Africa
and South America, where she acted for some time as teacher of Donna
Maria, who became queen of Portugal in 1826; and in the company of her
second husband she spent much time in the south of Europe. She published
accounts of her visits to India (1812), and to the environs of Rome
(1820); _Memoirs of Poussin_ (1820); a _History of France_; a _History
of Spain_ (1828); _Essays toward a History of Painting_ (1836); _Little
Arthur's History of England_ (1836); and the _Scripture Herbal_ (1842).

CALLCOTT, JOHN WALL (1766-1821), English musician, brother of Sir
Augustus Callcott, was born at Kensington on the 20th of November 1766.
At the age of seven he was sent to a neighbouring day-school, where he
continued for five years, studying chiefly Latin and Greek. During this
time he frequently went to Kensington church, in the repairs of which
his father was employed, and the impression he received on hearing the
organ of that church seems to have roused his love for music. The
organist at that time was Henry Whitney, from whom Callcott received his
first musical instruction. He did not, however, choose music as a
profession, as he wished to become a surgeon. But on witnessing a
surgical operation he found his nervous system so seriously affected by
the sight, that he determined to devote himself to music. His intimacy
with Dr Arnold and other leading musicians of the day procured him
access to artistic circles; he was deputy organist at St George the
Martyr, Queen Square, Bloomsbury, from 1783 to 1785, in which year his
successful competition for three out of the four prize medals offered by
the "Catch Club" soon spread his reputation as composer of glees,
catches, canons and other pieces of concerted vocal music. The
compositions with which he won these medals were--the catch "O beauteous
fair," the canon "Blessed is he," and the glee "Dull repining sons of
care." In these an