Thomas Roberts: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Ireland new from the Irish Sea to

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Thomas Roberts: Landscape and Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Ireland new from the Irish Sea to2009, Churchill House Press for the National Gallery of Ireland, 416 pages Although Thomas Roberts (1748 1777) is justly regarded as the finest Irish landscape painter of the eighteenth century, he is still little appreciated outside specialist circles. This important publication aims to make his work more widely known and to explore the richness of his landscape art. Roberts died at the age of just 28, having fled Ireland for Portugal to seek respite