The Castle of Alcalá de Guadaíra (Spanish: El Castillo de Alcalá de Guadaíra) is an 1833 landscape painting by the British artist David Roberts.Díez p.36 It depicts a panoramic distant view of the town of Alcalá de Guadaíra near Seville in Andalusia, with the ruins of the fourteenth century castle beyond it.
Roberts made his name as a scenic designer at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane before enjoying success as a Romantic landscape painter. He toured Spain in 1832-33 and produced a number of pictures based on the experience.Hopkins p.26 The painting is now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid.https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/obra-de-arte/wd/bc854a73-3630-4e66-963c-2036e01c72ed
References
Bibliography Díez, García. The Nineteenth Century in the Prado. T.F. Editores, 2008. Hopkins, Claudia. Art and Identity in Spain, 1833–1956: The Orient Within. Bloomsbury, 2024. Sim, Katherine. David Roberts R.A., 1796–1864: A Biography. Quartet Books, 1984.