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27. The Market PLACE, (Cairo)

Artist: Charles ROBERTSON, English, (1844 - 1891)
Execution date (approximate): 1883
Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (signed lower left with monogram and dated)
Measures: 99 x 141 cm.
Description: The Tombs of the Fatimides still exist since the 10th century, and still being
used as homes for some of the poor people in Cairo. A small caravan crossing the market
place in Cairo-Egypt at sunrise; market place located in between the Tombs of the
Fatimid’s, where some Egyptians used, and still use as their homes today because of the
overpopulation of Cairo.

Exhibitions
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
The Royal Academy of Arts in London. 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.

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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