Maria D ROBINSON
Born in Northern Ireland as Maria Dorothea Webb, the artist then migrated to Dublin. She studied art at Julian's Academy in Paris, and made her debut (1883) at the Paris Salon with A Breton Farm that she painted in Pont Aven. Exhibited from 1881-1910, and her first entry at the RA in 1885, was A Pool in the Rocks.
She was married to Henry Harewood ROBINSON. In the 1891 Census, Maria D and her husband Henry H were recorded as living at Richmond Place, St Ives. Both exhibited at the Opening Exhibition of the Gallery at Newlyn (1895). In 1901 she exhibited and sold Peacocks Feathers at NAG. The artist couple lived at 99 Richmond Place, St Ives. She was made an honorary member of the St Ives Arts Club after her husband's death. M D Harewood ROBINSON is one of the signatories of the Glanville Letter.
The Probate Office gives her full name as: Maria Dorothea Harewood ROBINSON. According to David Tovey, she signed her letters as Dorothy.She died in York, on 3 July 1920, age 80 (General Register Office, as ROBINSON, Maria D H).
media
Figure, landscape and flower painter
works and access
Works include: A Pool in the Rocks (1885); Peacocks Feathers (1901); A Volunteer for the Lifeboat
Access to Work: Salford City Art Gallery
The Three Fishers Wives, by 'Mrs Henry Harewood Robinson, City Art Gallery (Leeds Museums and Galleries).
exhibitions
NAG Opening1895, 1901; St Ives March 1889, August 1889; B (10); Dowdeswell (2); L (19); LS; M (12); Notts Castle (4); Whitechapel (3); RA (13); RBA (3); RHA (71); ROI (5)
memberships
STIAC 1898
misc further info
references
Cornishman 28 Mar 1889, 1 Aug 1889
St Ives Times 9 July 1920
Brook-Hart
Census 1891
Dowdeswell Exhibition Catalogue (See Hardie 2009 for repr)
Hardie (1995) 100 Years in Newlyn/Diary; (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall
Johnson & Greutzner
Notts Exhibition catalogue (See Hardie 2009 for repr)
Whitechapel Exhibition catalogue (See Hardie 2009 for repr)
Whybrow (1994) St Ives;