Maria D. Robinson

Irish-British painter

Maria Dorothea Robinson
Born	1840 Ireland
Died	3 July 1920 (aged 79–80) York
Nationality	British
Education	Académie Julian.
Known for	Painting
Spouse	Henry Harewood Robinson

Maria Dorothea Robinson, née Webb (1840–1920) was an Irish-British painter active in St. Ives, Cornwall.

Life

Robinson was born in Ireland and moved to Paris, where she was a pupil at the Académie Julian. She met and married the painter Henry Harewood Robinson and they lived in St. Ives, Cornwall from 1885. That year she had a picture, A Pool in the Rocks, shown at the Royal Academy in London.^[1] She is known for genre works depicting St. Ives and the Brittany coast.^[2]^[3]

Robinson died in York in 1920.

References

^ Marion Whybrow (1994). St Ives 1883-1993 Portrait of an Art Colony. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1851491708.
^ "Maria Dorothea Robinson". Cornwall Artists Index. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
^ "ROBINSON, Maria Dorethea - Painter". Bénézit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved 15 May 2018.