| LC control no. | n 81126903 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Roberts, David, 1796-1864 |
| Variant(s) | Rūbirts, Dāvīd, 1796-1864 روبرتس، دافيد |
| Associated country | Scotland England Great Britain |
| Associated place | Spain Egypt Jordan Lebanon Italy |
| Birth date | 1796-10-24 |
| Death date | 1864-11-25 |
| Place of birth | Stockbridge (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Orientalism in art |
| Affiliation | Royal Society of British Artists Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) |
| Profession or occupation | Painters Artists Set designers |
| Special note | Machine-derived non-Latin script reference project. Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | His The Holy Land ... 1855-56. His The Holy Land, 1979?: t.p. (David Roberts) added t.p. (Daṿid Roberṭs [in Hebrew]) al-Arāḍī al-muqaddasah bayna al-ams wa-al-yawm, 1996: t.p. (Dāvīd Rūbirts) Wikipedia, 13 Mar. 2012: under David Roberts, painter (David Roberts RA, born 24 Oct. 1796, died 25 Nov. 1864, was a Scottish painter; he is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East) Wikipedia, March 5, 2019 (David Roberts (painter); born Stockbridge near Edinburgh; died London; his lithographs and large oil paintings made him a prominent Orientalist painter; he was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841; started his career as an apprentice house painter and decorator, then as a stage scenery painter for a circus, then a theater; in 1819 he became the scene painter at the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh; he began to produce oil paintings seriously around this time; moved to London in 1822 as scenic designer and stage painter; by 1829 he was working full-time as a fine artist; in 1831 he was elected president of the Society of British Artists; traveled to Spain and Tangiers in 1832-33, then for a long tour in Egypt, Nubia, the Sinai, the Holy Land, Jordan and Lebanon in 1838-39, resulting in Sketches in the Holy Land and Syria, 1842-1849, and Egypt & Nubia series; visited Italy in 1851 and 1853; his last volume, Italy, Classical, Historical and Picturesque, was published in 1859) |
| Associated language | eng |
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