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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Roberts’s arrival in Seville in 1833 caused a stir in the local art world and had lasting effects on Spanish art and his own career. A successful artist-traveller who had produced pictures of Scotland Britain Germany Belgium and France and who had worked as a scene painter for Glasgow Edinburgh and London’s most prestigious theatres Roberts arrived in Ir?n in the autumn of 1832. Seville was his last stop on a long tour that led him via Burgos and Madrid to Andalusia and the north of Morocco. When Genaro P?rez Villaamil of Gali- cian origin and eleven years Roberts’s junior heard of the older artist’s presence in Seville he naturally wanted to meet him. Villaamil was an aspiring landscape painter himself and like Roberts he had travelled having returned to C?diz from a three-year sojourn in Puerto Rico where he had worked on the decoration of the newly built theatre in San Juan. On Villaamil’s request the British consul in C?diz introduced him to Roberts on 19 July 1833. Their subsequent encounter in Seville had consequences for Villaamil and for Spanish land- scape painting as a whole. Although their meeting had a less profound impact on Roberts’s work-by 1833 his style was already well established – Roberts painted important pictures in Seville where he stayed for five months longer than in any other city in Spain. Later in life Roberts fondly recalled his time in Spain. (OS)