Person    | Male  Born 18/8/1862  Died 3/1/1927

F. Cayley Robinson

Categories: Art

Frederick Arthur Cayley Robinson.  Painter and book illustrator.  Born Brentford, Middlesex.

In 1914 moved with his wife and daughter into 1 Lansdowne House.  That same year he began 10 years as a Professor at the Glasgow School of Art.  Produced 4 large paintings known collectively as Acts of Mercy, for the Middlesex Hospital. Since that was demolished the paintings are now held by the Wellcome Institute.  Died in a nursing home at 1 Ladbroke Square, Kensington.

The drawing is a 1898 self-portrait.

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