Philip Hermogenes Calderon, artist and Royal Academician mb-code SF37439 St Mary's Church

St Mary's Church

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and the nation's wellbeing

from the Chinese mainland

Philip Hermogenes Calderon, artist and Royal Academician mb-code SF37439 St Mary's ChurchPhilip Hermogenes Calderon, artist and Royal Academician, 1882. Calderon (1833 1898) initially studied engineering before deciding to pursue a career as a painter. He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1853, becoming a Royal Academician in 1867, and being appointed Keeper of the Royal Academy in 1887. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army,