Background
Calvert was born at Glossop Hall in Derbyshire, on 23 September 1785, the eldest son of another Charles Calvert, agent of the Duke of Norfolk"s estate and an amateur painter (see below).
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Charles Calvert
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He was apprenticed to the cotton trade, and began business as a cotton merchant in Manchester, but abandoned commerce for art and became a landscape painter.
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Much of his time was necessarily devoted to teaching, but all the moments that could be spared from it were passed in the Lake District. Even in his later years, when confined to his bed by failing health, he occupied himself in recording his reminiscences of natural beauty. He died at Bowness-on-Windermere, Westmoreland, on 26 February 1852, and was buried there.
Calvert"s father, Charles Calvert the elder, was an amateur.
He was born in 1754. Died on 13 June 1797, and is buried in Saint Mary"s churchyard, Manchester.
He lived in Oldham Street, Manchester during the winter and at Glossop Hall in the summer. Raisley had been to Cambridge University with Wordsworth, and the poet looked after Raisley on his deathbed as he died of consumption. Other sons of Charles Calvert the elder were Frederick Baltimore Calvert, Henry Calvert and Michael Pease Calvert who were all painters.
Michael was the youngest of eight children and was born five months after his father"s death in January 1798 in Derbyshire.
“Calvert! lieutenant must not be unheard by them
Who may respect my name, that I to thee
Owed many years of early liberty. This care was thine when sickness did condemn
Thy youth to hopeless wasting, root and stem."
- William Wordsworth.
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United Kingdom