Robert Barnes
English painter and watercolourist
Robert Barnes was an English painter and illustrator. He was born in 1850, and educated at St. Thomas’s Charterhouse, at Leighs School of Art, Newman Street, and under Mr. W. L. Thomas, to whom he was apprenticed in 1856. The illustrations to "Margaret Denzil’s History" in Cornhill were his first published work, and he first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1873. Three years later he became an Associate of the Royal Water-Colour Society. His work met with recognition at the Edinburgh Exhibition, 1886, and the Adelaide Exhibition, 1887.
Artworks by this artist (22 total)
- Girl with Pail Beside the Sea
- Boy Tying a Girl’s Shoe
- Boy Playing by the Sea
- Three Men and Two Boys Sitting on a Pier
- Two Girls Playing
- Two Boys
- The Beehive 1854
- By the Heath
- Woman Doing Laundry with Two Girls
- Two Girls Under an Umbrella
- Girl Playing with Coal
- Girl Reading a Picture Book
- The Grandmother with her Grandchildren
- Elderly Couple on a Park Bench, with Two Men Beyond
- Boy Sketching a Man with Two Girls Watching
- Boy Holding an Apple for a Girl with Two Girls Beyond
- Two Girls, One Crying
- Girl Sewing
- Girl Writing
- Girl Pinning Flowers on a Hat