Julian Walton discusses the brilliant but tragically short career of 18th-century landscape artist Thomas Roberts, the subject of an exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland
In February 1978 the National Gallery of Ireland marked the bicentenary of the death of Thomas Roberts by mounting a small exhibition of 18th-century Irish topographical and landscape paintings, focusing on the work of Thomas Roberts and his brother Sautelle. The forthcoming exhibition on Thomas Roberts at the National Gallery of Ireland is most opportune, and will bring to the attention of a wider public the achievement of this remarkable Irish artist
