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David Roberts

1796 - 1864

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David Roberts (24 October 1796 – 25 November 1864) was a Scottish 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 (1838–1840). These and his large oil paintings of similar subjects made him a prominent Orientalist painter. He was elected as a Royal Academician in 1841. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Roberts is the 1,006th most popular painter (down from 917th in 2019), the 2,225th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,782nd in 2019) and the 38th most popular British Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, David Roberts ranks 1,006 out of 2,023. Before him are Richard Estes, Antonio López García, Jan Wildens, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Cy Twombly, and Emanuel Leutze. After him are Adriaen Coorte, Taddeo Zuccari, George Hendrik Breitner, Auguste Herbin, Andrea Schiavone, and Mario Merz.

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Among people born in 1796, David Roberts ranks 30. Before him are Karl Ernst Claus, James Bowie, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz, August von Platen-Hallermünde, and John Stevens Henslow. After him are Abdullah Abdul Kadir, Johann Christian Poggendorff, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky, Laurent-Joseph-Marius Imbert, William H. Prescott, and Georg, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. Among people deceased in 1864, David Roberts ranks 36. Before him are Stephen Foster, Henryk Dembiński, Adam Wilhelm Moltke, Alexandre Calame, Antoinette de Mérode, and Archduke Louis of Austria. After him are Jakob Lorber, Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin, Anton Schindler, Johann Lukas Schönlein, Charles Julien Brianchon, and Heinrich Rose.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Roberts ranks 2,225 out of 8,785. Before him are Olivia Colman (1974), Patrick Magee (1922), Harry Redknapp (1947), Harry Gregg (1932), Nicolas Roeg (1928), and Cassivellaunus (-100). After him are Alan Smith (1962), John Wyndham (1903), Julian Sands (1958), John Scott Russell (1808), Andy Murray (1987), and Peter Sutcliffe (1946).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, David Roberts ranks 38. Before him are Thomas Rowlandson (1756), Effie Gray (1828), Roland Penrose (1900), Matthew Paris (1200), Vanessa Bell (1879), and Walter Crane (1845). After him are Roger Fry (1866), George Frederic Watts (1817), Dora Carrington (1893), George Romney (1734), Frank Dicksee (1853), and Robert Peake the Elder (1551).

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