Robert Batty (artist)

Robert Batty (* 1789 in London, † November 20, 1848 in London) was a British officer, painter, draftsman, watercolorist, etcher and illustrator.

With its subscribed views to Batty made ​​a lasting name internationally. Most of his drawings were transferred, reproduced and disseminated by other artists in copper and steel engravings.

Biography

Education and work

Batty was the son of a doctor, a well-known art lover, who passed his drawing talent to his children ( Robert and his sister ). As a 15 -year-old Robert accompanied his cousin, who later became Lord Langdale, 1804 on a trip to Italy. Later Batty studied medicine at Cambridge, but broke off his studies. He joined the British Army, fought in the Guards Grenadier Regiment, both in Spain and in the Battle of Waterloo against the armies of Napoleon and became an officer, of the rank of Colonel (other sources: Captain; Haussmann, Helmut Plath and Thieme -Becker: Lieutenant Colonel ) took his leave. His impressions of the military service, he was back in etchings, according to The Campaign of the left wing of the allied army in the Western Pyrenees and South of France in 1813-14.

Between 1822 and 1833, Batty operated as a watercolor painter, draftsman and etcher. He toured the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany and gave his impressions in sketches and drawings fixed.

Operation and development on the example " Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery "

1825 visited Batty the Kingdom of Hanover, the family seat of his British King George IV: The case carried sketchbook with the back signature " S III " and the intent of Batty's signature he filled with 53 pencil drawings and handwritten note " 1 to 25 August 1825 ". The sketches were made in the order of the itinerary, each sketch was provided with Place and date: From Hamburg Bremen (market, Weser bridges), Verden and Nienburg to Hanover and on about Biickeburg and Minden Weser up to Kassel. Of Hamelin led a trip to Pyrmont, another of Karl port for Trendelburg. 2 pen and ink drawings from Madrid and Burgos were later tied into the sketchbook. The 53 sketches served as a template for 1829 published, engraved by other artists engravings in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery with all pages views and half-page vignettes. Batty wrote in a reverent tribute to King George IV and explanatory texts in English and French. The other templates with pictures of Luebeck located since 1979 in the Museum of Art and Cultural History of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.

The sketchbook was acquired by the Historical Museum at the High Coast in 1961.

Works ( incomplete)

  • Campaign of the left wing of the Allied Army, in the Western Pyrenees and South of France, in the years 1813-14, J. Murray, London 1823
  • Robert Batty 's sketchbook in burgundy morocco, 18.4 cm x 27.3 cm x 1.7 cm, cover framed with gold embossed lines. In gold imprinted: On the lid initials RB on the back signature S III. The book contains 54 sheets ( cardboard, slightly yellowish, with gilt edges ), it is 53 pencil drawings of Lower Saxony as well ( bound ) are two pen and ink drawings from Madrid and Burgos.
  • Scenery of the Rhine. Belgium and Holland from Drawings, London 1826
  • Robert Batty: Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery, from Drawings by Lieutenant Colonel Batty, FRS; Robert Jennings ( ed. ), London, 1829.
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