Name of Object:

Portrait of David Roberts, Esq., R. A

Location:

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (Sharjah)

Holding Institution:

Sharjah Art Museum / Sharjah Museums Department

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Date of Object:

1844

Author:

Charles Baugniet (27/2/1814, Brussels-5/7/1886, Sèvres)

Inventory Number:

SM2006-352

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Lithograph

Dimensions:

405 x 310

Provenance:

London

Description:

This engraving shows a portrait of David Roberts (1796 – 1864), first completed in the 1840s by Charles Baugniet. Roberts is shown seated on an ancient plinth or capital, holding a drawing board and a pencil. A classical temple structure appears in the background on the left. David Roberts was a Scottish painter especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during extensive tours of the region (1838–1839). These, and his large oil paintings of similar subjects, made him a prominent and highly influential Orientalist painter. Charles-Louis Baugniet (1814 - 1886), was a Belgian artist famous for the lithographing of portraits of prominent European figures.

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Lithograph

Citation of this web page:

Ulrike al-Khamis "Portrait of David Roberts, Esq., R. A" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;ua;64;en

Prepared by: Ulrike Al-Khamis

MWNF Working Number: UA 065