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ROBERTS, DAVID (1796-1864)
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See also:ROBERTS, See also:DAVID (1796-1864) , Scottish painter, was See also:born at See also:Stockbridge, See also:Edinburgh, on the 24th of See also:October 1796. He was apprenticed by his See also:father, a shoemaker, for seven years to a painter and See also:house-decorator; and during this See also:time he employed his evenings in the study of See also:art. In 182o he formed the acquaintance of See also:Clarkson See also:Stanfield, then See also:painting at the See also:Pantheon, Edinburgh, at whose See also:suggestion he sent three pictures 111 1822 to the See also:Exhibition of See also:Works by Living Artists, held in Edinburgh. In the same See also:year he removed to See also:London, where he worked for the See also:Coburg See also:Theatre, and was afterwards employed, along with Stanfield, at See also:Drury See also:Lane. In 1824 he exhibited at the See also:British Institution a view of Dryburgh See also:Abbey, and sent two works to the first exhibition of the Society of British Artists, of which he was elected See also:president in 1831. In the same autumn he visited See also:Normandy, and the works which were the results of this excursion began to See also:lay the See also:foundation of the artist's reputation—one of them, a view of See also:Rouen See also:Cathedral, being sold for eighty guineas. His scenes for an See also:opera, The Seraglio, executed two years later, and the scenery for a See also:pantomime dealing with the See also:naval victory of See also:Navarino, and two panoramas executed jointly by him and Stanfield, were among his last See also:work for the theatres. In 1829 he exhibited the " Departure of the Israelites from See also:Egypt," in which his See also:style first becomes apparent; three years afterwards he travelled in See also:Spain and Tangiers, returning in the end of 1833 with a See also:supply of effective sketches, elaborated into attractive and popular paintings. His " Interior of See also:Seville Cathedral " was exhibited in the British Institution in 1834, and sold for £300; and he executed a See also:fine See also:series of See also:Spanish illustrations for the Landscape See also:Annual of 1836, while in 1837 a selection of his Picturesque Sketches in Spain was reproduced by See also:lithography.
In 1838 Roberts made a See also:long tour in the See also:East, and accumulated a vast collection of sketches of a class of scenery which had hitherto been hardly touched by British artists, and which appealed to the public with all the See also:charm of novelty. The next ten years of his See also:life were mainly spent in elaborating these materials. An extensive series of drawings was litho-graphed by See also: In 1851, and again in 1853, Roberts visited See also:Italy, painting the " Ducal See also:Palace, See also:Venice," bought by See also:Lord Londesborough, the " Interior of the See also:Basilica of St See also:Peter's, See also:Rome," " See also:Christmas See also:Day, 1853," and " Rome from the See also:Convent of St Onofrio," presented to the Royal Scottish See also:Academy. His last See also:volume of illustrations, Italy, Classical, See also:Historical and Picturesque, was published in 185g. He also executed, by command of See also:Queen See also:Victoria, a picture of the opening of the See also:Great Exhibition of 1851. In 1839 he was elected an See also:associate and in 1841 a full member of the Royal Academy; and in 1858 he was presented with the freedom of the See also:city of Edinburgh. The last years of his life were occupied with a series of views of London from the See also:Thames. He had executed six of these, and was at work upon a picture of St See also:Paul's Cathedral, when, on the 25th See also:November 1864, he died suddenly of See also:apoplexy.
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