Robert HERDMAN-SMITH
Born at Liverpool, the artist studied at Leeds, London, Paris, Antwerp and Munich. He travelled widely, and painted not only on the European Continent, but in Egypt and Australasia, South America and Japan. He became the Director of the School of Art at Canterbury College, New Zealand before returning to the UK, where he exhibited between 1920 and 1932 from addresses in Newlyn (1920) and Wareham in Dorset (1932).
He is also referenced as holding the tenancy of 5 Piazza Studios, St Ives in the early years of WWII, because the illustrator Harry ROUNTREE took it over from him in 1942.
media
Painter, sculptor, etcher, illustrator
works and access
Harbour End, Polperro; A Glimpse of the Harbour, Polperro;
exhibitions
Leeds (5)
references
Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists
Tovey (2009) St Ives: Social History (p165)
Tovey (2021) Polperro - Cornwall's Forgotten Art Centre - Volume Two - Post-1920, Wilson Books