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Description: | David Roberts was born in Stockbridge, near Edinburgh, in 1796. He is often called the Scottish Canaletto. For seven years he was an apprentice to a house painter, but when he was 21 joined a travelling circus as a scene painter. David Roberts then decided to become an archaeological painter and travelled around Egypt, the Holy Land and Europe making sketches. David spent 15 years as a scene painter and often worked with another artist called Clarkson Stanfield. In 1822 Roberts moved to London and exhibited at the first show held by the Society of British Artists. By 1830 David had stopped painting scenery and decided to pursue a career as a landscape and architectural artist. In 1837 he published Picturesque Sketches in Spain, this was to make him famous. The success of this publication inspired David to travel to East Asia. Some of his paintings from his foreign tours are still used for tourist postcards. In 1851 he worked as the Commissioner for the Great Exhibition. Roberts died on the 25th November 1864 whilst working on a series of views of the Thames in London.
An oil painted landscape showing a large tower and several palatial buildings in Venice. In the foreground there are many people gathered in a plaza. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Sandwell Museums | Rights holder: | Sandwell Museums | Subjects: | Fine arts Landscape Architecture Buildings | Temporal: | 1840
Victorian (1837-1901) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Roberts; David (1796 - 1864) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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