Edward Calvert (painter)

[1][2] After a spell in the Navy he studied art at Plymouth and the Royal Academy Schools (1824).

Amongst Calvert's finest works are exquisite miniature wood engravings which date from this early period; his wood and copper engravings all date from 1827–31, but were only seen by friends until published by his son in 1893 in an edition of 350.

Much of his subsequent life was spent with his wife Mary, in Dalston and nearby Hackney, a short distance from London.

Edward Calvert and his wife are buried at Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London; the headstone reads He was welcomed in Helicon.

[4] His third son, Samuel Calvert, was an artist and engraver active in Australia and produced a memoir of his father in 1893.