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Four Cantons (1842), Schreckhorn and Wetterhorn, Basle Museum; Waterfall near Meyringen, Berne Gallery; Lake of Lucerne (1853), Mountain Valley (1865), Berlin Museum.—Ch. Blanc, École allemande; Brockhaus, iii. 826; Meyer, Conv. Lex. (1875), iv. 78; Larousse.


CALAME, (JEAN BAPTISTE) ARTHUR, born in Geneva in 1843. Landscape painter; son and pupil of Alexandre, and in 1864-66 at the Düsseldorf Academy under Oswald Achenbach; travelled in Italy, and paints chiefly Italian landscapes and marine subjects. Works: Harbour on Mediterranean, Coast after Storm, Bay of Naples, Lake Lucerne, Coast of Bordighera.—Müller, 91.


CALATES, painter of comic subjects in little, lived soon after time of Alexander.—Pliny, xxxv. 37 [114]; R.-R., Schorn, 240.


CALCAR, JAN VAN. See Kalkar, Hans von.


CALDARA, POLIDORO. See Caravaggio, Polidoro da.



CALDERON, PHILIP HERMOGENES, born at Poitiers, France, May 3, 1833. Subject and portrait painter, of Spanish descent; pupil of J. M. Leigh, London, in 1850, of Picot, Paris, in 1851-52, and of Leigh again in 1853-54. Exhibited first picture, By the Waters of Babylon, at Royal Academy in 1853. Elected an A.R.A. in 1864, and R.A. in 1867. Other works: Broken Vows (1857); Gaoler's Daughter (1858); Nevermore (1860); 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, Œnone (1868); Sighing his Soul into his Lady's Face (1869); Spring petting Winter, Catherine de Lorraine and Jacques Clément (1870); The New Picture (1871); Good Night, Moonlight Serenade (1873); Queen of the Tournament (1874); Toujours Fidèle (1875); His Reverence (1876); Joan of Arc, Constance (1877); La Gloire de Dijon (1878); Summer Breezes, Twilight (1879); The Olive, The Vine, Captives of his Bow and Spear (1880); Flowers of the Earth (1881); Dymphna, Faithful Heart, Joyous Summer (1883); Morning (1885).—Meynell, 235; Portfolio (1870), 97.


CALIARI. See Cagliari.


CALIGULA'S PALACE AND BRIDGE, Joseph M. W. Turner, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 4 ft. 8 in. × 8 ft. 2 in. Caligula, to confute a prophecy of Thrasyllus—that he would no more be emperor than he could drive his chariot over the Bay of Baiæ—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 palace, with the bridge across the bay in the middleground; on the right, in distance, Baiæ. Royal Academy, 1831. Engraved by E. Goodall in Turner Gallery.


CALISTO DA LODI. See Piazza.



CALLCOTT, Sir AUGUSTUS WALL, born at Kensington, Feb. 20, 1779, died there, Nov. 25, 1844. Chorister boy for several years in Westminster Abbey; pupil of John Hoppner; became a portrait painter, and executed many figure pieces, such as Raphael and the Fornarina (1837), and Milton with his Daughters (1840). But it is as a landscape painter that he will be chiefly remembered. As such, he ranks among the best contemporaries of Turner and Constable, though he stands at a respectful distance from either in point of originality and