Robert Macpherson
'Temple of Mars Ultor'
About this artwork
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artist:
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title:'Temple of Mars Ultor'
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:36.00 x 28.80 cm
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object type:
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credit line:Purchased 1990
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accession number:PGP 32.4
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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…
