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Philip Hermogenes Calderon

1833–1898

Broken Vows 1856
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Historic and Modern British Art

Biography

Philip Hermogenes Calderon (Poitiers 3 May 1833 – 30 April 1898 London) was a British painter of French birth (mother) and Spanish (father) ancestry who initially worked in the Pre-Raphaelite style before moving towards historical genre. He was Keeper of the Royal Academy in London.

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St John’s Wood clique Victorian / Genre

Artworks

  • Philip Hermogenes Calderon St Elizabeth of Hungary’s Great Act of Renunciation

    1891
  • Philip Hermogenes Calderon By the Waters of Babylon

    1852
  • Philip Hermogenes Calderon Half Hours with the Best Authors (‘The Siesta’)

    1866
  • Philip Hermogenes Calderon Broken Vows

    1856
    On display at Tate Britain part of Historic and Modern British Art

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