Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA (1833-1898)

Philip Hermogenes Calderon RA (1833-1898)
The Gaoler's Daughter - A Scene from the French Revolution
Signed with monogram and dated 1858 (lower left)
Oil on canvas
38.8 x 29.7cm; 15¼ x 11¾in

Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1858, no.442

The Royal Academy exhibition catalogue quotes the following verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "No one is so accursed by fate,/No one so utterly desolate,/But some heart, though unknown,/Responds unto his own".