[1][6] The error may have originated in John Howard Nodal's Art in Lancashire and Cheshire: a List of Deceased Artists (1884), the source used for Charles Calvert's entry in the Dictionary of National Biography.
[7] Calvert moved to Manchester, where he became a professional artist specialising in oil paintings of animals, including livestock and hunts, across Lancashire, Cheshire, and northern Wales.
[8][9] His most notable painting was The Cheshire Hunt (1840), a large canvas depicting more than 40 different people—all of whom sat for Calvert—preparing for a hunt near Beeston Castle, which took him a year to paint and was exhibited in Manchester, Liverpool, and London; mezzotint prints were produced and sold by Thomas Agnew & Sons.
[10][11][12][13][14] It now hangs in the entrance of Tatton Hall in Cheshire, the former home of the noble Egerton family, some of whom were included in the painting.
[20] He died in Southport on 1 September 1868, aged 70, and was buried in Sale, Manchester alongside his wife Mary.