Christina Robertson

Christina Robertson RSA (; 17 December 1796 – 30 April 1854) was a Scottish painter generally remembered for her portraits of Russian imperial family, representative of Academical tradition. She was the first woman honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy.

Life Saunders was born in Kinghorn in Fife in December 1796, to parents who wished her to be educated. She was trained by her uncle, , who painted miniatures

During the Crimean War, Robertson fell from imperial favour; virtually obscure, she died in Saint Petersburg, and was interred into the Volkovo Cemetery.

Legacy Robertson left dozens of paintings that are important if only because they record the portraits of historic figures, but many were thought to have been destroyed by Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution. She is thought to be less well known than she might have been, due to the deterioration of the relationship between the British and Russian empires.

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