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David Roberts (painter)

David Roberts RA RBA (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced from sketches he made during long tours of the region (1838–1840). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.

David Roberts

(1796-10-24)24 October 1796

Stockbridge near Edinburgh, Scotland

25 November 1864(1864-11-25) (aged 68)

London, England

Scottish

Orientalism

Royal Academician

(1829)

Departure of the Israelites

The Great Staircase, Stafford House (1832), [20]

UK Government Art Collection

Interior of (1834)

Seville Cathedral

(1840), The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

A View in Cairo

(1841)

The Temple at Dendera

(1841)

The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec

Ruins of the , in Upper Egypt (1845)[21]

Great Temple at Karnak

(1850)

The Destruction of Jerusalem

The Church of the Jesuits, View on the (1854), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, Connecticut

Grand Canal, Venice

(1858)

Edinburgh from the Calton Hill

and Santa Maria, Venice (1862) Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust

The Dogana

Street in Cairo (Royal Holloway Collection, )

University of London

Pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Royal Holloway Collection, London)

The Great Sphinx (and) Pyramids of Gizeh (Giza) 17 July 1839

The Great Sphinx (and) Pyramids of Gizeh (Giza) 17 July 1839

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (1858). Oil on canvas

Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (1858). Oil on canvas

Approach of the Simoom--Desert of Gizeh. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Approach of the Simoom--Desert of Gizeh. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Obelisk at Alexandria Commonly Called Cleopatra's Needle. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Obelisk at Alexandria Commonly Called Cleopatra's Needle. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

The Hypaethral Temple at Philae called the Bed of Pharaoh. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

The Hypaethral Temple at Philae called the Bed of Pharaoh. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Departure of the Israelites (1829). Oil on canvas

Departure of the Israelites (1829). Oil on canvas

Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Thebes Dec. 4th, 1838 Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Thebes Dec. 4th, 1838 Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Convent of St Saba 4 April 1839. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Convent of St Saba 4 April 1839. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

The Houses of Parliament from Millbank by David Roberts, 1861

The Houses of Parliament from Millbank by David Roberts, 1861

The Holy Tree, Meterea. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

The Holy Tree, Meterea. Lithograph by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts

Interior of Amiens Cathedral, c. 1827. Princeton University Art Museum

Interior of Amiens Cathedral, c. 1827. Princeton University Art Museum

Grave of David Roberts in West Norwood Cemetery

Grave of David Roberts in West Norwood Cemetery

Part of the Hall of Columns at Kanak Seen from Without. Mougins Museum of Classical Art

Part of the Hall of Columns at Kanak Seen from Without. Mougins Museum of Classical Art

View from Under the Portico of Dayr-el-Medeeneh, Thebes. Mougins Museum of Classical Art

View from Under the Portico of Dayr-el-Medeeneh, Thebes. Mougins Museum of Classical Art

List of Orientalist artists

Orientalism

. Caledonian Mercury. No. 14847. Edinburgh. 23 January 1817. p. 1 – via British Newspaper Archive.

"Corri's New Pantheon"

. Caledonian Mercury. No. 15125. Edinburgh. 27 August 1818. p. 3 – via British Newspaper Archive.

"The Pantheon is to open..."

(1866), The Life of David Roberts R.A., compiled from Roberts's journals and other sources with etchings and pen-and-ink sketches by the artist, Edinburgh{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Ballantine, James

Donnelly, Michael (1981), Glasgow Stained Glass: A Preliminary Study, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries,  9780902752122

ISBN

Gilbert, W.M. (1901), Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century, Edinburgh, p. 112{{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

citation

Grant, James (1880), , Old and New Edinburgh, vol. 5, Cassell, p. 78

"VIII: Valley of the Water of Leith"

Guiterman, H.; Llewellyn, B. (1986), David Roberts, London:

Barbican Art Gallery

Mansfield, Susan (8 July 2006), , The Scotsman, retrieved 8 November 2007

"The big draw"

, ed. (1896). "Roberts, David (1796-1864)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Lee, Sidney

Matyjaszkiewicz, Krystyna. "Roberts, David (1796–1864)". (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23746. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Sim, Katharine (1984), David Roberts R.A. 1796-1864. A Biography, London (pub. Quartet){{}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

citation

at the Art UK site

111 artworks by or after David Roberts

has a full set of lithographs by David Roberts

Darnley Fine Art

The has images of and by David Roberts

Library of Congress

lists many public collections with works by Roberts

ArtCyclopedia

an article by Dr. Patrick Hunt

Artist David Roberts and Near Eastern Archaeology

Hindoo and Mahommedan Buildings., a painting engraved in colour by George Baxter for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1835, with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

The Great Mosque & The Alcazar, or Dungeon of the Inquisition, Cordova, on the Guadalquiver., a painting engraved by Thomas Higham for Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1840 with a posthumous poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon.