Artist: Robert Macpherson (1811 - 1872)
Nationality: British
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Robert Macpherson began as a painter, journalist, and art dealer before turning to photography in 1851. He opened a commercial studio in Rome and listed himself as the “Artist Photographer” in the studio guide in 1858. He was a member of the Photographic Society of Scotland. In the 1860’s, Macpherson suffered from health and financial problems and died in 1872.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert MacPherson, Roma #30, Porta Maggiore, circa 1860
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert MacPherson, The Ponte Nomentano over the Anio (Aniene), Rome, late 19th century
J. Paul Getty Museum -
The Campagna near Rome
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Robert MacPherson - The Falls Near Terni 1858-60 albumen print on mou Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame British
Museum of Fine Arts -
Robert Macpherson, Scottish, 1811-1872 Roman Architecture and Scuplture 1871 Photographs, forty-two albumen prints in bound
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Batty, Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Henri - Portrait of Mrs. Robert C. Watts 1926 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Paul Ponce Antoine Robert ( Robert de Seri), Femme Vue en Buste, 1723
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Robert Batty, Buckeburg, plate 18 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Wernigerode, plate 17 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Batty, Quedlinburg, plate 23 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Hohnstein, plate 3 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Kˆnigstein, plate 4 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Batty, Dresden, plate 35 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Trendelburg, plate 46 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Batty, The Rostrappe, plate 12 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Gottingen, plate 30 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Hameln, plate 29 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Karlshafen, plate 13 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert f. Blum - Studio of Robert F. Blum 1883-84 pastel Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Robert Batty, The Castle of Falkenstein, plate 7 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Batty, Blaukenburg Hartz, plate 60 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Batty, View from the Pastey, plate 19 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Batty, The Port, Hamburgh, plate 42 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Robert Batty, Ilsenburg, Hartz, plate 50 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, St. Andrew"s, Brunswick, plate 11 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Hoxter, on the Weser, plate 52 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The Exchange, Copenhagen, plate 53 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Dom Kirche, Lubeck, plate 21 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, St. Nicholas, Hamburgh, plate 20 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Paul Ponce Antoine Robert ( Robert de Seri), Lot and his Daughters, 17th - 18th century
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Robert Cooper, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, 18th - 19th century
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Robert Batty, The Gammel Torv, Copenhagen, plate 54 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Bridge over the Weser, Bremen, plate 48 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, The Town Hall, Copenhagen, plate 59 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Palace of Gredericksborg, Denmark, plate 49 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Bridge near the Werra, at Munden, plate 9 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Karlshafen, from the Cassel Road, plate 51 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Rocks near the Bastey, Saxony, plate 47 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829
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Robert Batty, Church of St. Catherine, Brunswick, plate 57 in the book Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery after drawings by Lieut. Col. [Robert] Batty (London: Robert Jennings, 1829), 1829

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Australian Centre for Contemporary Art: Robert MacPherson: Murranji
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Robert Macpherson: A Comprehensive Survey of Work
The language of roadside signage, fruit and vegetable shops, street hobos and car enthusiasts is expressed in Macpherson's paintings, installations and sculptural works, which are regarded highly by international curato...
Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center: Call to Artists: Workshop with Kevin MacPherson
Fee: $1,440 ($1,300 Members) How To Register: Class size is limited and full payment is required at registration to reserve your space in the workshop. Hui No’eau Visual Arts Center will refund tuition, less a $75 withdrawal fee, for a...
Wellington City Gallery: The power and the packaging... 17 Days of Shopping - A Photographic Installation
She is interested in how even the most basic food items reach us via an increasingly elaborate web of design, packaging, marketing, biotechnology and industrial infrastructure. Most modern-day shoppers have lost the skills of previous generat...
Hamburger Bahnhof Museum: Face Up - Contemporary Art from Australia
The exhibition features 36 painting, video/DVD, photography and sculpture works, including a number of new commissions realised on site at the museum. Schmitz says : 'The exhibition is part proposition, part declaration. Beyond proffering a genera...
3RD i GALLERY: InterActive Art Works
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Photographer's Gallery: Dave Lewis: Photographs and Text Combine to Address Racism
Artist Dave Lewis, using selected quotes from the Sir William Macpherson Inquiry - the official document generated in the wake of Stephen Lawrence's murder, published in 1999 - has created a dialogue between the public manifestation of th...
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane: QUO VADIS: 25 years of the IMA
Presented In conjunction with its silver anniversary, the IMA presents an exhibition built around the extraordinary 25-year commitment of photographer Richard Stringer, who has documented the IMA since its beginnings in 1975. Quo Vadis is 25 years...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Unscripted: Language in Contemporary Art
Over the last two decades in Australia, the use of language in contemporary art has been integrated much more so than previously. Unscripted: language in contemporary art will bring together 22 works by some of Australia's most well-known co...
EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION: SIMRYN GILL: NATURAL RESEMBLANCE, SOME RECENT PHOTO WORKS
Gill's explorations of the connections and complexities between systems of language, botany and geography are the basis for these enigmatic images. The works variously take their cues from the development of concepts of writing and nature; the his...
National Gallery of Victoria: Colin McCahon: A Time for Messages
The NGV holds a major six panel work on paper produced in 1979 by McCahon, and the acquisition of an important early work by McCahon has been a collection priority of the NGV for several years. Acquired in 1999, One is a painting that is small...
Oakland Museum of Califoria: California Species: Biological Art & Illustration
The artworks were chosen by a panel of professional artists, illustrators and scientists. In addition to being aesthetically appealing and technically accomplished, they had to show native C...
Biennale of Sydney 2002, International Festival of Contemporary Art: (The World May Be) Fantastic.
The 2002 exhibition invites you to view My Living Room is a Martian Base (Gilles Barbier, France), see Nixon in Chains (Jeffrey Vallance, USA), hear A Strange Message From Another Star (Veli Granö, Finland), experience the killing in the Muriel...

Further Artwork and Information:

Robert MacPherson, Armourer
www.math.ias.edu/~phares/macpherson/RDM.html
Robert Macpherson (Getty Museum)
Robert MacPherson Online
Robert Macpherson (1811 - 1872) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Bob MacPhersons HomePage
Robert MacPherson, Armourer: 16th Century Black and white - Detail
Robert Macpherson: A Comprehensive Survey of Work - Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney - Absolutearts.com
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