Henry Harewood ROBINSON

Henry Harewood ROBINSON JP
1850
1904
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Born in Almondsbury, Gloucestershire, the artist married the artist Maria D WEBB and the couple lived at Richmond Place, St Ives, where they were recorded in the 1891 Census. His original training was as a barrister.

In 1890 both of the Robinsons entered paintings for the Dowdeswell Show of Cornish Painters, as they did in the Opening of the Passmore Edwards Art Gallery (NAG) in 1895. His other avocation was music and he gave many concerts in St Ives for charitable purposes, arranging songs and conducting the orchestra. In his wife's death notice (STIT 9/07/1920 it states he was a J P)

media

Figure, landscape and coastal painter

works and access

Works include: Iris; On the Frome

exhibitions

Dowdeswell; Notts Castle (14); Whitechapel (6); RA(13); RHA; NAG (Opening) 1895-1901; St Ives March 1889, August 1889; Lanham's;  RBA; L; M

memberships

STIAC 1898 (First Secretary, 1890)

references

The Cornishman 28 Mar 1889, 1 Aug 1889

St Ives Times 9 Jul 1920

Hardie (1995) 100 Years in Newlyn/Diary; (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall

Whybrow (1994) St Ives;

http://west-penwith.org.uk/glanvile.htm

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