![]() ![]() These encounters with the oriental world, in the context of contemporary interest in exotic places, especially the lands of the Bible, encouraged him to undertake a tour of the Near East in 1838. Horne’s Landscape Illustrations of the Bible (1836). ![]() From Spain, Roberts briefly visited Morocco later he made watercolours from sketches by other artists for engraving in T. He made his first visit to Spain in 1832-3, one of the first British artists to travel there. Harding and James Holland, Roberts undertook journeys abroad in search of exotic or impressive subjects. In common with other contemporary painters of picturesque topography and architecture, such as Stanfield, J. Roberts exhibited his first easel painting in London in 1824 and at the Royal Academy in 1826 (View of Rouen Cathedral, no. While in Scotland he met and worked with Clarkson Stanfield and later collaborated with him in London on dioramas and panoramas. From 1816 until 1830 he was employed in the theatre to design and paint stage scenery, first in Edinburgh and Glasgow and after 1822 in London. The son of a shoemaker, he was apprenticed to a house-painter. ![]()
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