1-273-589 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Philip Hermogenes Calderon, artist and Royal Academician, 1882. Calderon (1833-1898) initially studied engineering before deciding to pursue a career as a painter. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853, becoming a Royal Academician in 1867, and being appointed Keeper of the Royal Academy in 1887. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).