"Church of the Annunciation"

Lithograph by Louis Haghe of David Roberts "Church of the Annunciation" Published 1844 - overall size 60cm x 75cm David Roberts (1796–1864) A renowned Scottish painter and Royal Academician. He was one of the first professional British artists to travel, producing famous works like The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia (1842-9). Born in Stockbridge, Edinburgh, he was apprenticed to a house painter and worked as a scene painter for theatres before settling in London in 1822. He became a prominent member of the Royal Academy and was known for his mastery of light and precise architectural detail. His 11-month tour of Egypt and the Holy Land in 1838–1840 produced a massive collection of drawings, defining his legacy as a painter of the exotic East. Louis Haghe (1806 - 1885): Louis Haghe was born in Belgium, the son of an architect. He trained under the Chevalier de la Barrière, later becoming his lithographic assistant. In c.1823, Haghe travelled to London, where his lithographs were printed by William Day, with whom he enjoyed a long, successful collaboration. By the 1820s, he had taken up watercolour painting. He later produced tinted lithographs, including 250 for Roberts’s ‘The Holy Land...’ (1842-49). From the 1850s he focused on watercolours. He was President of the New Society of Painters in Watercolours (1873-84) and a Knight of the Order of Leopold I. He was also a member of the Academies of Belgium (1847) and Antwerp, and the New Society of Painters in Watercolours. He died in Surrey at the age of 78.