CALVERT Charles
1785 - 1852 (66 years)-
Name CALVERT Charles Born 23 Sep 1785 Glossop Hall, Glossop, Derbyshire 
[1] Gender Male Census 7 Jun 1841 54 Garside Street, Manchester, Lancashire [2] Census 30 Mar 1851 Brow Top, Undermilbeck, North End, Kendal, Westomorland [3] Occupation Landscape painter Died 7 Jan 1852 Penrith, Cumberland [4, 5] Cause: Consumption Person ID I10436 RADCLIFFE Last Modified 22 Jun 2020
Father CALVERT Charles, b. 1754, d. 13 Jun 1797, Manchester, Lancashire (Age 43 years) Mother HOLLIDAY Elizabeth, b. 1753, Lancashire , d. Mar 1842, Royal Infirmary, Fever Ward, Ayton Street, Manchester, Lancashire (Age 89 years) Married 9 Feb 1784 Collegiate Church of St Mary, St Denys and St George, Manchester, Lancashire [6] Family ID F3153 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family SCOTSON Martha Longworth, b. 1795, Westleigh, Leigh, Lancashire , d. 1846, Deansgate, Manchester, Lancashire (Age 51 years) Married 10 Oct 1815 St John's Church, Manchester, Lancashire [7] Children 1. CALVERT Eliza, b. 8 Feb 1816, Manchester, Lancashire , d. Yes, date unknown2. CALVERT Charles, b. 1816, Manchester, Lancashire , d. Oct 1817, Manchester, Lancashire (Age 1 years)3. CALVERT Emma, b. 1821, Manchester, Lancashire , d. Yes, date unknown4. CALVERT Clara Ellen, b. 1827, Manchester, Lancashire , d. Yes, date unknown5. CALVERT Frederick, b. 1829, Manchester, Lancashire , d. Yes, date unknown6. CALVERT Agnes, b. Abt 1831, Manchester, Lancashire , d. Yes, date unknownLast Modified 7 Feb 2025 Family ID F3140 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 23 Sep 1785 - Glossop Hall, Glossop, Derbyshire 
Married - 10 Oct 1815 - St John's Church, Manchester, Lancashire 
Census - 7 Jun 1841 - 54 Garside Street, Manchester, Lancashire 
Census - 30 Mar 1851 - Brow Top, Undermilbeck, North End, Kendal, Westomorland 
Died - Cause: Consumption - 7 Jan 1852 - Penrith, Cumberland = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Calvert, Charles (1785–1852), landscape painter, born at Glossop Hall, Derbyshire, on 23 September 1785, was the eldest son of Charles Calvert (1754–1797), land agent, and his wife, Elizabeth Holliday (1751/2–1842). His father was agent of the duke of Norfolk's estate in Derbyshire and an amateur artist. Charles Calvert senior died on 13 June 1797 and was buried in St Mary's churchyard, Manchester. Calvert began business as a cotton merchant in Manchester, having been apprenticed to the cotton trade, but abandoned commerce for art and became a landscape painter. He was instrumental in the foundation of the Manchester Royal Institution (which later became Manchester City Art Gallery) and gained the Heywood gold medal (awarded to local artists) for a landscape in oil, and the Heywood silver medal for a landscape in watercolour. The Manchester Courier reported in 1828 that, of local artists, Calvert's paintings were the most consistently sold. He was not well known outside his region, however, and exhibited only two works in London, one of which, at the British Institution in 1825, was entitled Near Rustom, Cheshire.
Calvert devoted much of his time to teaching, and spent the remainder painting in the Lake District. Although confined to his bed in later years, he continued to paint landscapes from memory. He died at Bowness, Westmorland, on 26 February 1852, and was buried there. Examples of his work are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Manchester City Galleries.
Charles Calvert's brothers included Frederick Baltimore Calvert (1793–1877), actor and lecturer on elocution, George Calvert (1794–1825), surgeon, Henry Calvert (1785–c.1869), sporting and animal painter, and Michael Pease Calvert, painter. He was father-in-law to the portrait painter William Bradley (1801–1857).
In the Dictionary of National Biography Raisley Calvert (bap. 1773, d. 1795), friend and benefactor of William Wordsworth, is incorrectly described as Charles Calvert's younger brother. Raisley Calvert was baptized on 16 September 1773, the younger son of Raisley Calvert senior (1728/9–1791), steward of the duke of Norfolk's estate at Greystoke Castle, near Penrith, Cumberland. His elder brother was William Calvert (1771–1829), who was at school with Wordsworth at Hawkshead, Lancashire, where he later became schoolmaster. On the death of his father, William Calvert became a man of independent means, inheriting, with other property, the estate of Bowness on the east shore of Bassenthwaite, near Keswick. Raisley Calvert inherited from his father several farms near Keswick, the income from which was held in trust until he attained his majority in 1794. He was admitted to Magdalene College, Cambridge, on 14 February 1793, where he became friends with Wordsworth, but left soon afterwards with a resolve to educate himself by travel on the continent. Though described in the Dictionary of National Biography as a sculptor, no evidence has come to light of any works sculpted by Raisley Calvert. On falling ill with consumption, he returned to the Lake District, where he died at Penrith after 7 January 1795, when Dorothy Wordsworth mentioned that he was 'barely alive' (Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, 139). He was buried on 12 January. In his will, signed on 23 October 1794, Raisley Calvert left £900 to Wordsworth.
- Calvert, Charles (1785–1852), landscape painter, born at Glossop Hall, Derbyshire, on 23 September 1785, was the eldest son of Charles Calvert (1754–1797), land agent, and his wife, Elizabeth Holliday (1751/2–1842). His father was agent of the duke of Norfolk's estate in Derbyshire and an amateur artist. Charles Calvert senior died on 13 June 1797 and was buried in St Mary's churchyard, Manchester. Calvert began business as a cotton merchant in Manchester, having been apprenticed to the cotton trade, but abandoned commerce for art and became a landscape painter. He was instrumental in the foundation of the Manchester Royal Institution (which later became Manchester City Art Gallery) and gained the Heywood gold medal (awarded to local artists) for a landscape in oil, and the Heywood silver medal for a landscape in watercolour. The Manchester Courier reported in 1828 that, of local artists, Calvert's paintings were the most consistently sold. He was not well known outside his region, however, and exhibited only two works in London, one of which, at the British Institution in 1825, was entitled Near Rustom, Cheshire.
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Sources - [S1201] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Charles Calvert (1785-1852), landscape painter
Born at Glossop Hall, Derbyshire on 23 September 1785.
Was the eldest son of Charles Calvert (1754-1797), land agent, and his wife Elizabeth Holliday (1751/2-1842). - [S985] Census Manchester 1841, HO107/569 Folio 36 p.23.
54 Garside Street Charles Calvert 55 yrs Artist b. Not Lancashire
Born about 1786 - [S1205] Census Undermillbeck, Westomorland 1851, HO107/2441 Folio 162 p. 48.
Brow Top Charles Calvert Head 69 yrs Widr Retired artist b. Glossop, Derbyshire
Born about 1782 - [S1201] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- [S1448] British GRO deaths index, Kendal Mar 1852 10b 350.
Charles Calvert d. Kendal Mar 1852 10b 350 - [S811] Lancashire Marriages & Banns 1754 - 1936.
Manchester m. 9 Feb 1784
Charles Calvert of Glossop + Elisabeth Holliday of Manchester by lic: M Griffith - [S982] Manchester C of E marriages 1754-1930, GB237.M403/6/3/2.
St John's Church, Manchester
Charles Calvert of Parish of Manchester, Artist
+ Martha Longworth Scotson of same parish
m. 10 October 1815 by license
Performed: Robert Dallas
Witnesses: Ja Buxton, M Hunter
No. 587, p. 196
- [S1201] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.