Thomas Sautelle Roberts
, Irish, 1760-1826
Title
The Countryside near Bray, County Wicklow, Looking towards Killiney BayDate1793
MediumInk, graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
25.7 x 37.5 cm
Signedlower right: T S. -Roberts 93
(Irish Watercolours and Drawings in The National Gallery of Ireland, Adrian Le Harivel, ed., 1991)
Credit LinePurchased, 1982
Object numberNGI.18991
DescriptionThomas Sautelle Roberts was apprenticed to the Dublin architect Thomas Ivory but later abandoned architecture for painting. He studied at the Dublin Society's Schools, and began his career as a landscape artist painting views around Dublin and Wicklow. His brother Thomas Roberts (1748-1778) was a talented painter in oils. Twelve aquatints of Irish scenery were published after his watercolours between 1795 and 1799. A master of the small scale watercolour, he was adept at painting trees and conveying the spaciousness of a view. His use of soft colours and typical foreground figures place him firmly in the eighteenth century tradition of picturesque landscape painting. Exhibition HistoryIrish Watercolours and Drawings, McMullen Museum of Art Boston College, Boston, 4 October 1993 – 5 December 1993