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). | |