Roberts, Bishop
Bishop Roberts (? - 1740) was an American artist active in Charlestown, South Carolina. Very little is known of his life, but he advertised his services (portraits, landscapes, heraldry, drawings, engravings; and as well to paint houses) in 1735. He produced a watercolor panorama of the coastline of Charleston sometime between 1735 and 1739. (The original is now held in the Colonial Williamsburg Collection.) A large printed version of this work on four sheets appears to have been engraved by W. H. Toms, which was available as early as 1740. We are aware of one example of this four-sheet panorama to have survived, also at Colonial Williamsburg. Its 1739-40 dating is indicated by announcements printed by Robert’s widow, Mary Roberts, advertising that her husband's subscribers should pick up (and pay for) the prints so that she could settle his estate. Mary Roberts (died 1761) was herself an artist, one of the earliest American miniaturists, and the first recorded woman working in the medium in the colonies.
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