Robert Batty

(1789-1848)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Batty, Captain (Robert), d. 1848 DNB: Batty, Robert (1788/9-1848), army officer and artist LBT ID: RoBatty1848 VIAF ID: 19953020 LOC ID: nr88000430	B/BAP: 1789 DIED: 1848-11-20
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English painter; after study at Caius College, Cambridge he fought in the Peninsular War and pursued a military career while issuing topographical books including Select Views of the Principal Cities of Europe (1830-33).
REFERENCES TO Robert Batty: Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter I. 1828-1830. Found 1: ¶ 2