David Roberts

DAVID ROBERTS (St0ckbridge, Edinburgh, 1796 - London, 1864).
"Landscape."
Charcoal on paper.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 18.5 x 27.5 cm; 47 x 56 cm (frame).
he composition shows a wild scene dominated by waterfalls, rocks and a rustic architecture that seems to be integrated in an organic way in the environment. The choice of a mountainous and dynamic landscape, with water in constant movement, suggests the indomitable force of nature, one of the central themes of the romantic landscape.
David Roberts, an emblematic painter of English Romantic landscape painting, traveled between 1832 and 1833 in Spain, Morocco and Tangier. On his return to London, his watercolors were made known to the general public through their translation into engraving and lithography, under the name of Picturesque Sketches in Spain During the Years 1832 and 1833, and became very popular among a public intensely interested in the exotic and the oriental world. Thanks to his mastery of scenography, as he had worked in the theatrical field in his early years as a painter, Roberts achieved very effective compositions, adopting peculiar points of view.