Robert Macpherson
St Peter's Basilica, Rome
About this artwork
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title:St Peter's Basilica, Rome
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accession number:PGP 54.15
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materials:Salt print
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date created:1847 or later
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measurements:15.40 x 20.20 cm
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credit line:Provenance unknown
Robert Macpherson
Robert Macpherson
Robert Macpherson originally trained as a surgeon, but then took up a career as a painter. He moved to Rome around 1840, and practised there both as a landscape painter and art dealer. In the mid-1840s he identified and bought a Michelangelo painting, which he subsequently smuggled out of the…