Michael Angelo Rooker. Michael Angelo Rooker was an English oil and watercolour painter of architecture and landscapes, illustrator and engraver.
He was also the principal scene painter at the Haymarket Theatre. Michael was the son of artist Edward Rooker and Elizabeth Coatham and was taught engraving by his father and drawing by Paul Sandby at the St. Martin's Lane school in London and at the Royal Academy Schools.
It was Sandby who called him Michael Angelo Rooker in jest, but the name stuck. In 1765 he exhibited some stained drawings at the exhibition in Spring Gardens, London and in 1768 a print by him of the Villa Adriana was published.
In 1770 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. In 1772 he exhibited a painting of Temple Bar, and he contributed some illustrations to an edition of Sterne, published that year.
Most of the landscapes in Kearsley's Copperplate Magazine were engraved by him, as well as a few plates in its successor, The Virtuosi's Museum, and he both drew and engraved the headings of the Oxford Almanack for several years, for each of which he received 50 pounds. For a long time he was chief scene-painter at the Haymarket Theatre in London, and appeared in the playbills as Signer Rookerini; but a few years before his death he was discharged, in consequence, it is said, of his refusal to aid in paying the debts of Colman, the manager. In 1788 he began to make autumnal tou
He was also the principal scene painter at the Haymarket Theatre. Michael was the son of artist Edward Rooker and Elizabeth Coatham and was taught engraving by his father and drawing by Paul Sandby at the St. Martin's Lane school in London and at the Royal Academy Schools.
It was Sandby who called him Michael Angelo Rooker in jest, but the name stuck. In 1765 he exhibited some stained drawings at the exhibition in Spring Gardens, London and in 1768 a print by him of the Villa Adriana was published.
In 1770 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy. In 1772 he exhibited a painting of Temple Bar, and he contributed some illustrations to an edition of Sterne, published that year.
Most of the landscapes in Kearsley's Copperplate Magazine were engraved by him, as well as a few plates in its successor, The Virtuosi's Museum, and he both drew and engraved the headings of the Oxford Almanack for several years, for each of which he received 50 pounds. For a long time he was chief scene-painter at the Haymarket Theatre in London, and appeared in the playbills as Signer Rookerini; but a few years before his death he was discharged, in consequence, it is said, of his refusal to aid in paying the debts of Colman, the manager. In 1788 he began to make autumnal tou
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