Biographies

Alexandre Calame (1810 – 1864) He was born and raised in Switzerland, studying art in Geneva with François Diday. He lost his right eye when still a child, but that did not stop him from becoming one of the leading landscape painters in Europe, specializing in scenes of the Swiss mountains. In a letter to , E. Wake Cook mentioned Calame as his teacher: The New Age NA 10.12:286 NAquotehere