by Percy Robertson; etching; Image: Image (plate): 19.5 x 14.0 cm; Sheet: 31.5 x 22.0 cm
Drypoint etching of the Guildhall, London, by Percy Robertson. On cream wove paper; signed by the Artist, lower left in pencil.
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Condition
‘The Guildhall’ by Percy Robertson
Excellent condition. Very slight and unobtrusive cockling along upper and lower edge, with a slight tone change along the top edge. Image in excellent condition.
Percy Robertson (b. Bellagio, Italy, 1868) was a British watercolour painter and etcher. He was the son of the celebrated painter and engraver Charles Robertson (1844-1891) and his wife Alice Mary, née Lonsdale, who married in Cheltenham but later settled in Farncombe, Surrey. Their home, Meadrow House, from which Percy Robertson occasionally exhibited, bears a blue plaque in celebration of his life there.
Alongside his brothers, Percy was educated at Charterhouse School, Godalming, where he showed much early promise as an artist, winning the school’s Leech Prize for drawing in 1884 and publishing 23 of his drawings in The Greyfriar, the school’s illustrated journal. He left Charterhouse in the spring of 1885 intent on a career in Art.
In 1887, aged 19 and already exhibiting, Percy Robertson was elected to the Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers (now the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers). A full fellowship came in 1908 when, three years’ a married man and living in London, he had established a successful career exhibiting frequently at The Royal Academy and with the Royal Society of Etchers.
Further to the award of his fellowship, Robertson finished a major series of approximately 200 views of the Thames from Oxford to Kingston-on-Thames. He is also renowned for his paintings and etchings of Surrey, including such places as Guildford from St Katherine’s Hill (1891), Shere (1899), and Albury (1905).
He died at 11 Sheen Common Drive, Richmond, Surrey on 5 January 1934, aged 69. He and his wife (Edith Helen Nash, who died in 1950) had no children.