Robert Hawker Peniel PRESTON

Robert Hawker Peniel PRESTON
1837
1933

Born in Painswick, Gloucestershire, Preston is known to have been in Penzance from 1861. By August 1864, aged 27, he was living in Madron, where in the same year he married Harriet Snell Body. He was living in Alverton Street in 1891 and working as a full-time photographer. All of his 8 known children were born either in Penzance or in the adjacent parish of Madron.

See GIBSON FAMILY for further detail.

media

Artist photographer

works and access

Penlee House Gallery & Museum (photographic collection)

exhibitions

2011: 'The Marvellous Everyday', Penlee House, Penzance

references

1891 Census

Family information files, Morrab Library

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn & West Cornwall (See Section 4: 'Photography' pp305-309)

J Rice (2011) Curator's selection:  'The Marvellous Everyday' Exh Cat