Dieppe – The Artists – Roberts, David – Travel Information and Tips for France

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who painted in Dieppe. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

David Roberts (1796 – 1864) was a Scottish painter. He started out as a house painter and decorator, but took an interest in painting.

His speciality became the Middle East, and he travelled extensively there. But to reach these far remote places, he needed to travel through France. And therefore he painted quite a lot of scenes he encountered.

In the autumn of 1824 he visited Normandy. His paintings based on this trip began to lay the foundation of his reputation; one of them, a view of Rouen Cathedral, sold for 80 guineas.

During the second part of the 1820s, and in addition to English and Scottish scenes, Roberts painted views of prominent buildings in France and the Low Countries including Amiens, Caen, Dieppe, Rouen, Antwerp, Brussels and Ghent, sometimes making several paintings of the same scene with only minor variations.

Click here to read Roberts’ full bio in Wikipedia.

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1826 - David Roberts - The Church of St-Jacques, Dieppe — 1826 – David Roberts – The Church of St-Jacques, Dieppe

TODAY: The Saint-Jacques church still exists today, and can be visited.

1828 - David Roberts - Dieppe — 1828 – David Roberts – Dieppe

1832 - David Roberts - The Lady Chapel of the Church of St-Jacques, Dieppe — 1832 – David Roberts – The Lady Chapel of the Church of St-Jacques, Dieppe

1849 - David Roberts - The Market Place, Dieppe, France — 1849 – David Roberts – The Market Place, Dieppe, France

TODAY: The market place still still held every Saturday morning around the Saint-Jacques church and spreads through many of its side-streets.

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David Roberts painted several places in France, a link “⇠” to those cities will appear below when published:

Bourgogne-Franche-Comte (Burgundy)
- Dijon
Brittany
- Dinan
Centre-Val de Loire
- Bourges
- Chambord
Hauts-de-France
- Abbeville
- Amiens
Normandy
- Caen ⇠
- Dieppe ⇠
- Le Treport
- Mont Saint-Michel
- Rouen
- Saint-Lo
Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Bordeaux
- Poitiers
Pays de la Loire
- Saumur

Dieppe in Normandy was a popular place for artists to come and apply their art. Here is a list, non exhaustive, of the artists that painted in Dieppe.

A link (“⇠”) to the artist’s works will appear when published (a “*” indicates that the artist did not work directly in Dieppe, instead worked in nearby villages):

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