Samuel Calvert (21 November 1828 – 1 January 1913) was a British draughtsman, printer and artist active in Australia, noted for his wood-engravings, published in contemporary periodicals.

During his period in Australia, Samuel Calvert produced hundreds of engraved illustrations for a variety of publications on a wide range of subjects.

He was one of the founding members of the Victorian Academy of Art, formed in 1870, and showed watercolours and oil paintings at their subsequent exhibitions.

In 1848, influenced by his brothers' immigration experience, Samuel Calvert resigned from his job as a clerk for the East India Company in London and sailed for Adelaide aboard the Symmetry, arriving on 9 November 1848.

The reason for Calvert leaving the partnership was to enable him to work exclusively as a draftsman and engraver "in consequence of the now rapidly increasing demand for ichnographic and artistic illustration".

His contributions were a map, 'Routes to the Victoria Diggings', and a frontispiece depicting a group of diggers around a camp-fire, surrounded by mining equipment.

[12] The Arm-Chair was first published in about September 1853 by Hough & Co.[13] It was described as "an amusing little publication... the Punch of Melbourne", containing "sparkling and witty" writing and "clever wood engravings".

[22] The Calvert Brothers partnership also published the illustrated periodicals Australian Builder and Weekly Remembrancer as well as local almanacs.

In June 1854 a contract was signed with the Victorian Post Office specifying the production of one million stamps, in sheets of fifty, for which Calvert would be paid £275.

[25][2] On 31 March 1858 Samuel Calvert was brought before a Bench of Magistrates and charged with "embezzling money, and illegally disposing of stamps, the property of the Government".

In addressing the jury towards the end of the trial Calvert's attorney, Dr. Sewell, "referred to the well-known good character of his client, who had committed the error with no evil intent, but under the pressure of pecuniary difficulties".

After considering the matter for half an hour the jury returned a verdict of guilty "accompanied by a strong recommendation to mercy on account of previous good character".

[27] In August 1858 he appeared in the Insolvent Court where it was revealed that the three-month sentence passed on him had "not been carried into effect, in consequence of a reserved point" and in all probability "it will be quashed".

[28] At the third meeting before the Insolvent Court on 13 September 1858 Calvert disclosed that, although he had a claim against the Post Office for £180, the debt "is so mixed up with contingencies as to the payment, that the assignee has serious doubts of its being paid".

[30] After being discharged from bankruptcy Samuel Calvert began to rebuild his career as an artist and wood-engraver, working either from home or as an employee of an established printing business.

[2] The brothers, Samuel and William Calvert, provided encouragement and assisted the young inventor, Louis Brennan, during the design, testing and manufacture of his guided torpedo.

[40][41] In 1894 Calvert returned to Melbourne and leased a building at 92-94 Collins Street (a location associated with artists since the mid-1860s), where he opened the Burlington Studios in November 1894.