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.
