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Birth
1796 (Stockbridge, Scotland)
Death
1864 (London, England)
Lived/Active
United Kingdom/England/Scotland
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painting-scenes of Egypt, Holy Land, and Africa
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A painter whose reputation was made by the paintings he did of exotic
lands, David Roberts was born and raised in Stockbridge, near
Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, John Roberts, was an
impoverished shoemaker, who, with his wife Christine, tried to support
five children in a small house on Duncan's Land by the Water of
Leith. The house remains standing in the 21st century. Only
two of the children lived to maturity.
Roberts' mother encouraged his obvious (showing 500 of 5013 characters). |
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