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Maria Dorothea Robinson, née Webb (1840–1920) was an Irish-British painter active in St. Ives, Cornwall.

Life

Robinson was born in Ireland and moved to Paris, where she was a pupil at the Académie Julian. She met and married the painter Henry Harewood Robinson and they lived in St. Ives, Cornwall from 1885. That year she had a picture, A Pool in the Rocks, shown at the Royal Academy in London. She is known for genre works depicting St. Ives and the Brittany coast.

Robinson died in York in 1920.

References

1. Marion Whybrow (1994). St Ives 1883-1993 Portrait of an Art Colony. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1851491708.
2. "Maria Dorothea Robinson". Cornwall Artists Index. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
3. "ROBINSON, Maria Dorethea - Painter". Bénézit Dictionary of Artists. Retrieved 15 May 2018.

External links

• 2 artworks by or after Maria D. Robinson at the Art UK site
• Maria D. Webb-Robinson on artnet

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