![]() During this time he studied art in the evenings. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841.Īpprenticed for seven years to a house painter and decorator named Gavin Beugo, his fellow apprentice being David Ramsay Hay, who became a lifelong friend. These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist 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). David Roberts RA RBA was a Scottish painter. ![]()
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