Calderon, PHILIP HERMOGENES, R.A.

Calderon, PHILIP HERMOGENES, R.A., painter, born at Poitiers of Spanish parentage in 1833, studied in London and Paris, and regularly contributed to the Royal Academy from 1853, his subjects being chiefly historical or imaginative. He was elected an Associate in 1864, and an Academician in 1867. He exhibited at the Paris Exhibitions of 1867 and 1878, receiving at the former the first medal awarded to English art, at the latter a first-class medal and the Legion of Honour. In 1887 he was appointed keeper of the Royal Academy. He died April 30, 1898.