James Roberts (painter)

Roberts worked on a set of dramatic portraits, to be engraved for the book series Bell's British Theatre.

[1] For a period Roberts worked in Oxford as a drawing master, where he fell under the influence of John Baptist Malchair.

[1] Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, daughter of Hawkins, considered that flattery from Hayes was the reason her father agreed to sit for Roberts, that the result was uncharacteristic, and that the book shown was a novel.

a translation by Henry Seymour Conway of Trompeurs Dehors by Louis de Boissy.

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