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Ross, Robert Thorburn, RSA

1816 – 1876

Robert Thorburn Ross studied initially under George Simson RSA and then at the Trustees Academy under Sir William Allan RSA. He proceeded to work in Glasgow as a portrait painter and lived in Berwick Upon Tweed for a time before settling back in Edinburgh in circa 1846. He is best known for his scenes of Scottish life but he also produced a number of landscape pieces and illustrated "The History of a pin" in 1861. He worked in oil and watercolour and exhibited at the RSA from 1833 until 1876. He became an Associate Member of the RSA in 1853 and an Academician in 1869.



An image from the RSA collection.