About this artwork
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artist:Robert MacphersonScottish (1811 - 1872)
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title:Roman Forum
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date created:1860s
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materials:Albumen print
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measurements:24.30 x 35.70 cm
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object type:
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accession number:PGP 32.5
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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...
