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watercolour

signed

18.00inch wide    13.00inch high    (45.72 cm wide  33.02 cm high)

British Landscape Painters –M.H Grant
Portrait painters in Britain – B. Stewart & M. Cutten

Very good

Charles Robinson was born in 1870. His father was an illustrator & his grandfather engraved the work of illustrators for the burgeoning magazine and newspaper market of the mid 1800's.
His older brother, Thomas Heath Robinson, was an illustrator as was William Heath Robinson, his younger brother. Talent ran deep in the family, and all three brothers were raised in an atmosphere that guided them towards their final profession.
After a childhood of assimilating his father's (& uncle's) craft, and a high school education, Charles was apprenticed to a printer where he worked the lithographic stones. For the seven years of his indenture, he did his best to take art lessons in the evenings. His studies were sufficient enough to earn him a probationary berth at the Royal Academy in 1892, but finances kept him from taking advantage of it. Apprentices didn't make much money and the fortunes of his family must have been affected seriously by the revolutions occurring in the printing and reproductive fields.
Charles Robinson - Andersen's Fairy Tales. It wasn't until he was 25 that Charles began to make professional sales. His first full book was Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses (1895). It is filled with over 100 pen & ink drawings that display many different facets of a talented artist turned loose to play.