David Roberts

David Roberts (1796-1864) was a Scottish painter, born in Edinburgh. He began as a house-painter. He became a scene-painter. He studied artistic drawing, and devoted himself to architectural painting, his first pictures being of Rouen and Amiens cathedrals. After visiting Spain he published a collection of Spanish sketches, and after a tour in the East published in 1842 a magnificently-illustrated volume entitled the "Holy Land, Syria, Idumæa, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia." A great number of his pictures are ecclesiastical interiors.

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