ROBINS, William Palmer

1882 - 1959

William Palmer Robins was born in Southwark, London on 21 July 1882, eldest son and second child of William Benjamin Robins (13 February 1858-29 December 1914), an art teacher, and his wife Annie née Palmer (1857-26 November 1939), an elementary teacher, who married at St Saviour Church, Southwark in 1880. In 1891, young William was an 8-year-old, living at Hatcham Park Road, St Paul Deptford, London with his parents, 33-year-old William and 33-year-old Annie, with siblings Annie Caroline 10, Arthur 6, John Marshall 3 and Ernest Dicye 1, who were all born in London. As a child William studied at Roan's School in Greenwich and architecture at King's College, Strand where he was awarded a silver medal for the History of Architecture, and at St Martin's School of Art and Goldsmiths College. He married at Edmonton, London in 1910, Mabel Louisa Matthews (1884-21 August 1917), an artist and sculptor, and in 1911, a 28-year-old drawing master, living at 49 Meadowvale Road, Ealing, London with his 27-year-old wife Mabel, later moving to Knebworth, Hertfordshire as Head of the Etching Department in the Central School of Arts and Crafts and serving in the Artists Rifles during the First World War. A landscape painter, lithographer, and etcher also an essayist and book illustrator, and a member of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers also a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers and of the Print Makers' Society of California. He exhibited in the UK, Venice, Florence, Paris, Zurich, and Los Angeles also exhibiting at the Ipswich Fine Art Club in 1923, three dry point works 'Near Beccles', 'Farm near Sandwich' and 'Below Bray' and an aquatint 'Cement Works, Rochester'. His first wife died giving birth to their surviving child, Bridget (1917-1983), and William married secondly at Brentford in 1919, Miriam Gladys Matthews (9 December 1890-6 February 1984), his late wife's younger sister, and went on to have four further children. In 1939, a teacher of drawing engraving artist, living at 10 Grimsdells Lane, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, with a married Catherine Marjorie Robins (26 July 1908-14 June 2005), a portrait artist, and his widowed mother Annie, who died later that year. He was of 3 St Oswalds Studio, Sedlescombe Road, London SW.6, when he died at 16 Fitzroy Square, London W.1, on 14 July 1959, leaving effects to the value of £687.18s.7d.
Website: https://www.wprobins.com

Royal Academy Exhibits
from The Cottage, Knebworth Station, Herts.
1912 1379 Middlesex Hayricks - etching
1913 1471 The Quiet Stream - etching
1914 1197 The Brook - etching
from Hop Springs, London Road, Knebworth
1915 253 A Shed by the Stour - etching
         262 Lock on the Stour - etching
         1226 The Last Load - watercolour
from The Red House, Codicote, Welwyn
1916 213 Footbridge at Dedham - etching
         229 The Dutch Cow - etching
         232 Interior of a Barn - etching
from Artists Rifles OTC, Hare Hill Romford
1917 1240 A Norfolk Landscape - etching
from Colnaghi and Obach, 144 New Bond Street, London
1918 1189 The Woodpit, Knipton - etching
         1190 The Punt - etching
         1242 The Mimsam at Floodgates - etching
1919 1219 The Creek - etching
         1223 Harmer Green - etching
from 34 Sandford Road, Bromoley
1920 1100 Eynsford - dry point
from Colnaghi, 144 New Bond Street, London
1921 836 The White Mill - etching
from 182 Fleet Street, London
1922 1055 Mill on the Waveney - dry point
         1067 Moonrise, Westerham - aquatint
1923 1063 Storm and Flood - dry point
         1107 Near Bray - dry point
1924 1025 The Path of a Gale - dry point
         1080 Old Cottage, Shoreham - dry point
from Colnaghi, 144 New Bond Street, London
1925 975 Monkton - etching
from Nutford, Benhill Avenue, Sutton, Surrey
1926 834 Shoreham Beach - oil on canvas
         1034 Near Walberwick: Evening - etching
1927 1123 An Old River Mill - etching
1928 1191 The Rick Yard - etching
1929 1003 St Paul's from Bankside - etching
         1119 The Hundred Foot Cut - etching
from 2 Rutland Mansions, Cliftonville, Margate
1930 1194 The Sluice Bridge, Walberswick - lithograph
         1203 A Flemish Mill - lithograph
from 61 Cambridge Road, West Wimbledon, London
1931 1226 Canterbury - dry point
from 3 St Oswald's Studios, Sidlescombe Road, London
1932 27 Windy Day in Suffolk - oil
         1184 The Ramparts, Sluis - dry point
1933 1294 Windsor - dry point
1934 751 Meadows at Steyning - oil
         1245 Sun and Rain - aquatint
1935 707 The Ouse, near Ely - oil
         1287 Distant Ely - dry point
         1305 Ely from the Meadows - aquatint
1936 1297 Ely from the Fens - etching
         1329 T.Lowry, Street Musician - mezzotint
1937 1115 Low Tide, Shoreham - aquatint
         1136 Great Bealings - aquatint
1938 1246 Mantles Farm - dry point
         1256 The Artist's Mother - mezzotint
1939 795 Tithe Barn Berry Court - dry point
         963 Houghton Mill on the Trent - dry point
         1002 Isleworth No. 2 - aquatint
1940 1273 The Saxon Ship at Sutton Hoo - dry point
from 10 Grimsdell Lane, Amersham, Surrey
1942 553 The Great Barn - aquatint
1943 797 Glastonbury - aquatint
1944 713 The Work-box - oil
         1052 Ely - etching
1945 1034 The Squall - oil
from 3 St Oswald's Studios, Sidlescombe Road, London
1946 1052 The Ferry - aquatint
1947 985 Passing Storm, Ely dry point
         992 Weir in Dunster Park - dry point
1948 1097 St Michael Pater Noster Royal - etching
         1102 Visiting Day, St Bartholomew's Hospital - etching
         1135 Dunster Castle - aquatint
1949 971 Baling the Punt - oil
         1074 Theatre Royal, Drury Lane - etching
1950 731 Spring in Essex - oil
         1144 The Avenue - aquatint
1951 948 Guy's Hospital - etching
         949 Summer Storm, Glastonbury - aquatint
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Works by This Artist