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Robert Thorburn Ross - Artist

Robert Thorburn Ross (1816-1876) was born in Berwick but moved to Edinburgh where he trained under George Simson, RSA and Sir William Allan. He worked in Glasgow producing, in the main, pastel portraits. In 1842 he returned to Berwick where his range of subject matter grew taking in what are known as “genre” paintings; pictures of working people in their landscape or home. These were honest works unlike the many sentimental images so popular in the Victorian era. During this time, he began exhibiting at the Scottish Academy. After ten years in Berwick, he returned to Edinburgh and in 1869 was admitted to the Royal Scottish Academy.

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