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30.  The Shoes of The FAITHFUL


          Artist: Charles ROBERTSON, English, (1844 - 1891)
          Execution date (approximate): 1879
          Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed with monogram lower right with dated)
          Measures: 107 x 78 cm.
          Description: The Faithful are obliged to leave their shoes at the entrance of the Mosque,
          a Scene still repeated nowadays. The Faithfull going to pray leave their shoes at the
          entrance of the mosque in Cairo- Egypt.


          Exhibitions
          Exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in London: in 1879 under no. 954, and in 1882 under
          no.1279, see The Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation
          in 1769 to 1904 by Algernon Graves F.S.A. vol. VI, p. 328.
          The Royal Academy of Arts in London, 1863,1864, 1874, 1877, 1979, 1880, 1881, 1882, 1883,
          1885, see The Complete Dictionary of Contributors and their work from its foundation in
          1769 to 1904 by Algernon Graves F.S.A. vol. VI, p. 328.


          Publications
          •  Royal Academy of Arts in London, 1879.


          Biography
          Charles Robertson was an English painter of Orientalist scenes, and aquarellist. He studied
          in London and Rome. He traveled to North Africa-Algeria in 1862, and he presented his first
          painting (an Orientalist painting on Algeria) to the Royal academy in London a year after.
          He stayed for a long time in Egypt. He was fond of the Orient and his paintings are rich of
          the scenes he crossed daily. He exhibited at the British Royal Academy of London. He also
          traveled to Damascus-Syria, Cairo- Egypt, Jerusalem, and Turkey.



































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