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Percy Robertson

1868 – 1934

British painter and engraver, 1869-1934

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Lived 1868 – 1934 (aged 65–66). Percy Robertson was a British painter and engraver.

Percy Robertson RE (1868–1934) was an English watercolour landscape painter and etcher.

Robertson was born in Bellagio, Lombardy, Italy. His father, also a painter and engraver, was Charles Robertson and his mother was Alice Mary, the daughter of the colonist Captain William Lonsdale (1799–1864), who supervised the founding of Port Phillip, later to become the location of Melbourne in Australia. Between 1883 and 1885, he was educated with his brothers at Charterhouse School in England, where he won the Leech Prize for drawing in 1884. He lived in Godalming and painted and etched in the county of Surrey, including in Guildford from St Catherine's Hill (1891), Shere (1899), and Albury (1905).

In 1905, Percy Robertson married Edith Helen Nash ("Nelly"). They lived in London, where he produced pictures of street scenes and the River Thames. He also lived in Maidenhead on the Thames west of London.

Robertson's artworks are held by Godalming Museum.

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1868
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Died
1934
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Education
Charterhouse School

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British painter and engraver, 1869-1934

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Percy Robertson was born in 1868.

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Percy Robertson died in 1934.

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Percy Robertson was a painter and engraver.

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Percy Robertson was British.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Percy Robertson

· Wikidata: Q19800069

· DBpedia: Percy Robertson

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