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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 (1838–40). 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
David Roberts (1844).jpg
David Roberts in 1844 by Hill & Adamson
Born
24 October 1796
Stockbridge near Edinburgh, Scotland
Died
25 November 1864 (aged 68)
London, England
Nationality
Scottish
Movement
Orientalism
Elected
Royal Academician
Early life

Move to London
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Roberts in 1842
In 1822 the Coburg Theatre, now the Old Vic in London, offered Roberts a job as a scenic designer and stage painter. He sailed from Leith with his wife and their six-month-old Christine and settled in London.[14] After working for a while at the Coburg Theatre, Roberts moved to the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to create dioramas and panoramas with Stanfield.[15]

A miniature by Roberts from this time shows Margaret as a delicate woman with blonde ringlets, holding the smiling three-year-old Christine. But Roberts` family life was not as idyllic as this picture suggests: Margaret had become an alcoholic, and eventually, in 1831, Roberts sent her back to Scotland to be cared for by friends. Roberts may have burned some letters from this period in shame at his wife`s drinking problem, but he was unusually frank in a letter to a friend, David Ramsay Hay. Roberts and Hay had been an apprentices together, and Hay had been seeing a mistress since his own wife had started drinking.

`If you do not know our cases are almost parallel. Yours is not as bad as mine, having some consolation. The state of my nerves is such I can scarcely write. But thank God she leaves tomorrow—I hope for ever.`[14]
In 1824, he exhibited another view of Dryburgh Abbey at the British Institution and sent two works to the first exhibition of the newly formed Society of British Artists. In the autumn of 1824 he visited Normandy. His paintings based on this trip began to lay the foundation of his reputation; one of them, a view of Rouen Cathedral, sold for 80 guineas.[13]

While he built his reputation as a fine artist, Roberts`s stage work had also been commercially successful. Commissions from Covent Garden included the sets for the London premiere of Mozart`s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio) in 1827, scenery for a pantomime depicting the naval victory of Navarino, and two panoramas that he executed jointly with Stanfield.[13]

During the second part of the 1820s, and in addition to English and Scottish scenes, Roberts painted views of prominent buildings in France and the Low Countries including Amiens, Caen, Dieppe, Rouen, Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, sometimes making several paintings of the same scene with only minor variations.[16]

By 1829 he was working full-time as a fine artist. That year, he exhibited the Departure of the Israelites from Egypt, in which his style first became apparent.[13] In 1831, the Society of British Artists elected him as their president.

Travel to Spain

Travel to Egypt and the Holy Land
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Isle of Graia Gulf of Akabah Arabia Petraea, 1839 lithograph of a trade caravan by Louis Haghe from an original by David Roberts.
Main article: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia
J. M. W. Turner persuaded Roberts to abandon scene painting and devote himself to becoming a full-time artist. Roberts set sail for Egypt on 31 August 1838, a few years after Owen Jones. His intent was to produce drawings that he could later use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs to sell to the public. Egypt was much in vogue at this time, and travellers, collectors and lovers of antiquities were keen to buy works inspired by the East or depicting the great monuments of ancient Egypt.

Roberts made a long tour in Egypt, Nubia, the Sinai, the Holy Land, Jordan and Lebanon. Throughout, he produced a vast collection of drawings and watercolour sketches.

Muhammad Ali Pasha received Roberts in Alexandria on 16 May 1839, shortly before his return to the UK. He later reproduced this scene, apparently from memory, in Volume 3 of Egypt & Nubia.

Return to Britain

Later life

Selected works
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Paintings
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Departure of the Israelites (1829)
The Great Staircase, Stafford House (1832), UK Government Art Collection[19]
Interior of Seville Cathedral (1834)
A View in Cairo (1840), The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
The Temple at Dendera (1841)
The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec (1841)
Ruins of the Great Temple at Karnak, in Upper Egypt (1845)[20]
The Destruction of Jerusalem (1850)
The Church of the Jesuits, View on the Grand Canal, Venice (1854), Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, New Haven, Connecticut
Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (1858)
The Dogana and Santa Maria, Venice (1862) Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust
Street in Cairo (Royal Holloway Collection, University of London)
Pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Royal Holloway Collection, London)
Prints
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Picturesque Sketches in Spain (London, 1835–36)
The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia (London 1842–49, originally as The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea and Arabia and Egypt and Nubia, in 2x3 volumes.) Link to Images
Cities of North Africa (London 1852)
Journals
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Roberts, David, Record Book, 1829–1864, unpublished manuscript, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
Roberts, David, Eastern Journal, 1838–1839, unpublished manuscript, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.


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