Gate of the Serranos, Valencia

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Government Hospitality, Lancaster House

David Roberts, son of a shoemaker from Stockbridge, Edinburgh, began his career at the age of ten as an apprentice to a house painter. On completing his apprenticeship he was employed on the decoration of Scone Palace in Perthshire. He later became a scene painter for James Bannister, who ran a circus in Edinburgh, and at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, before moving to London in 1822, where he turned to easel painting. Roberts exhibited at the British Institution, Society of British Artists and Royal Academy. He is best-known for topographical paintings and illustrations resulting from trips to Spain and the Middle East. He died aged 68 at his home in Fitzroy Street, near Tottenham Court Road, London, and is buried at Norwood Cemetery.

Places

Spain, Valencia, Valencia: Torres de Serranos

Subjects

horseback, topography, townscape/cityscape, horse, crowd, flag, parade, gate, battlement/crenellation

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

David Roberts (1796 - 1864)

Title

Gate of the Serranos, Valencia

Date

1837

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Dimensions

height: 25.70 cm, width: 36.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Gilbert Davis, July 1964

Inscription

br: D. Roberts 1837

GAC number

1793