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CALAME Four Cantons (1842), Schreckhorn and Wetterborn, Basle Museum ; Waterfall near Meyringen, Berne Gallery ; Lake of Lu- cerne (1853), Mountain Valley (1865), Ber- lin Museum. Ch. Blanc, cole allemande ; Brockbaus, iii. 826 ; Meyer, Conv. Lex. (1875), iv. 78 ; Larousse. CALAME, (JEANBAPTISTE) ARTHUR, born in Geneva in 1843. Landscape paint- er ; son and pupil of Alexandre, and in 1864-66 at the Dtisseldorf Academy under Oswald Acbenbacli ; travelled in Italy, and paints cbiefly Italian landscapes and marine subjects. Works : Harbour on Mediterra- nean, Coast after Storm, Bay of Naples, Lake Lucerne, Coast of Bordigbera. Mtiller, 91. CALATES, painter of comic subjects in little, lived soon after time of Alexander. Pliuy, xxxv. 37 [114]; R.-R., Schorn, 240. CALCAE, JAN VAN. See Kalkar, Hans von. CALDARA, POLIDORO. See Caravag- gio, Polidoro da. CALDERON, PHILIP HERMOGENES, born at Poitiers, France, May 3, 1833. Subject and portrait painter, of Spanisb de- scent; pupil of J. M. Leigb, London, in 1850, of Picot, Paris, in 1851-52, and of Leigb again in 1853- 54. Exbibited first picture, By the Waters of Babylon, at Royal Academy in 1853. Elected an A.R.A. in 1864, and R.A in 18G7. Otber works: Broken Vows (1857) ; Gaoler's Daughter (1858); Nevermore (I860); Demande en Mariage, Releasing Prisoners on the Young Heir's Birthday (1861); After the Battle (1862); British Embassy in Paris on Night of St. Bartholomew (1863); Her Most High, Noble, and Puissant Grace (1866); Home after Victory (1867) ; Young Lord Hamlet, (Enone (1868); Sighing his Soul into his Lady's Face (1869); Spring petting Winter, Catherine de Lorraine and Jacques Clement (1870); The New Picture (1871); Good Night, Moonlight Serenade (1873) ; Queen of the Tournament (1874); Toujours Fidele (1875); His Reverence (1876); Joan of Arc, Constance (1877); La Gloire de Dijon (1878); Summer Breezes, Twilight (1879) ; Tbe Olive, The Vine, Captives of his Bow and Spear (1880); Flowers of the Earth (1881); Dympbna, Faithful Heart, Joyous Summer (1883); Morning (1885). Meynell, 235; Portfolio (1870), 97. CALIARI. See Carjliari. CALIGULA'S PALACE AND BRIDGE, Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 8 in. x 8 ft. 2 in. Caligula, to confute a prophecy of Thrasyl- lus that he would no more be emperor than he could drive his chariot over the Bay of Baiao built a bridge of boats from the mole at Puteoli across the bay, about three Roman miles, and rode and drove over it. Turner has assumed that the bridge was constructed on arches. On the left are magnificent ruins of Caligula's pal- ace, with the bridge across the bay in the middleground ; on the right, in distance, Baife. Royal Academy, 1831. Engraved by E. Goodall in Turner Gallery. CALISTO DA LODI. See Piazza. CALLCOTT, Sir AUGUSTUS WALL, born at Kensing- ton, Feb. 20, 1779, died there, Nov. 25, 1844. Choris- ter boy for several years in Westmin- ster Abbey ; pupil of John Hopp- ner ; became a portrait painter, and executed many figure pieces, such as Raphael and the Fornarina (1837), and Mil- ton with bis Daughters (1840). But it is as a landscape painter that be will be chiefly remembered. As such, he ranks among the best contemporaries of Turner and Con- stable, though he stands at a respectful dis- tance from either in point of originality and