Sir James Dunlop & Robert Macpherson
Arch of Titus, Rome, with two figures
About this artwork
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title:Arch of Titus, Rome, with two figures
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date created:Unknown
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materials:Salt print - waxed
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measurements:15.20 x 19.60 cm
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accession number:PGP 54.9
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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...