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Trailblazer: The Intrepid Mr Roberts

A Map of Roberts’s Route

Subjects represented within the collection

An essay by the late Gabriel Naughton, a friend and artistic advisor to the collectors

An essay by the late Gabriel Naughton, a friend and artistic advisor to the collector

The Exceptional Life of David Roberts, R.A.

London

VP, Specialist

Mark Griffith-Jones

SVP, Senior International Specialist, 19th Century European Paintings

Claude Piening 

SVP, Chairman, Middle East &amp; India

Edward Gibbs

Senior Director, Head of Old Master & Early British Drawings, Worldwide

Gregory Rubinstein

VP, Head of Old Master Drawings

Alexander Faber

SVP, Senior Advisor, Old Master Drawings

Cristiana Romalli

Department Assistant

Adina Mukhamejan

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As the first professional artist from Britain to travel to the middle east and north Africa, Roberts’s journey through the region in the spring of 1839 was as ground-breaking as it was intrepid. The body of work that he created on and soon after these epic travels not only caused a sensation amongst his contemporaries but is still recognised today as one of the great artistic achievements of the entire nineteenth century.&nbsp; Sotheby’s is thrilled to present for sale an extraordinary collection of thirty-five watercolours by Roberts whose subjects include many of the most iconic landscapes, cities and ancient monuments that he had the privilege to visit. Assembled over a period of more than a quarter of a century by a most passionate and discerning collector, the collection is considered the greatest of its type in private hands.

David Roberts, R.A. - Travels through the Middle East; Important Watercolours from a Distinguished Private Collection