George Lance Calkin (22 June 1859 – 10 October 1936) was a British painter. Calkin was the second child in a family of seven siblings. He was born in London, to Emily and George Calkin, a musician and composer. He was educated in a private school and then attended the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal Academy Schools. His principal works were portraits of King

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, Marquis of Camden and Joseph Chamberlain. Many of his works were reproduced in the weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic. Calkin married Alice Annie O’Brien (1870–1957) in Camberwell in 1891; they had three daughters, Joan Margaret (b. 1892), Phyllis Eileen (b. 1894) and Enid (b. 1903). In 1895 he became a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Calkin died in 1936 at Cresilton Road,

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