David Roberts

1796–1864 · Realism

David Roberts 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.

40 paintings

• Procession before the tombs of the Caliphs, Grand Cairo
• The Fortress of the Alhambra, Granada (1836)
• La façade de la Cathédrale de Reims avec une procession médiévale et un cortège au premier plan (1831)
• Sketch of the Interior of the Duomo, Milan
• St. Mungo's Cathedral Glasgow
• Egyptian Landscape with a Distant View of the Pyramids (1862)
• The Church of St Jacques, Dieppe (1826)
• Rouen Cathedral (1831)
• Moorish Church Interior (Eastern Church) (1832)
• The Gateway to the Great Temple at Baalbec (1841)
• Interior of St Peter's, Rome (1853)
• The Tombs of the Scaligeri at Verona (1856)
• Interior of the Duomo, Milan (1857)
• At Verona, Italy (1859)
• Milan Cathedral, Italy (1863)
• Church Interior
• Church of Our Lady, Bruges (previously known as 'Toledo Cathedral')
• Castle and Bridge of St. Angelo, Rome (1860)
• Temple Island Philae (1838)
• Alhambra and Albaicin
• Interior from the church of St. Jacques in Dieppe
• Part of the ruins of a temple on the Island of Bigge (Bigeh), in the Nile, Nubia. (1838)
• Interior from Toledo Cathedral (1853)
• The interior of St Paul's Antwerp (1859)
• The Temple of Dendera (1841)
• The Entrance to the Golden Temple in Baalbeck (1841)
• The Israelites Leaving Egypt (1830)
• Edinburgh from the Calton Hill (1858)
• King's College Chapel—Cambridge (1837)
• Rouen Cathedral (1811)
• The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans Under the Command of Titus, A.D. 70 (1850)
• The Hypostyle Hall of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt (1849)
• Edinburgh from the Castle (1847)
• The Giudecca, Venice (1854)
• The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition: 1 May 1851 (1852)
• A View of Toledo and the River Tagus (1841)
• A View in Cairo (1840)
• The Fountain on the Prado, Madrid (1841)
• Ruins of the Temple of Bacchus (1840)
• The Castle of Alcalá de Guadaíra (1833)