Landscape with Stile
1799 · Black pastel with brush and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, on tan wove paper, laid down on card
16.6 × 23 cm (6 9/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Augustus Wall Callcott
British, 1779–1844
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Augustus Wall Callcott was a British painter of landscapes and historical subjects in oil, active at the Royal Academy from the early 1800s onward. His work drew on picturesque scenery and dramatic narratives sourced from literature and classical antiquity, combining topographical observation with literary imagination. He remained a central figure in early nineteenth-century British academic painting until his death in 1844.
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