Percy Robertson RE (1868–1934) was an English watercolour landscape painter and etcher. Robertson was born in

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, Lombardy,

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. His father, also a painter and engraver, was Charles Robertson and his mother was Alice Mary, the daughter of the colonist Captain William Lonsdale (1799–1864), who supervised the founding of

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, later to become the location of

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in Australia. Between 1883 and 1885, he was educated with his brothers at

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, where he won the Leech Prize for drawing in 1884. In 1887, Robertson was elected to the

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, later to become the

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. He was elected a full Fellow of the Society in 1908. Robertson exhibited 33 artworks at the

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and 166 works at the Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. He lived in

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and painted and etched in the county of Surrey, including in

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from St Catherine's Hill (1891),

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(1899), and

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(1905). In 1905, Percy Robertson married Edith Helen Nash ("Nelly"). They lived in London, where he produced pictures of street scenes and the

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. He also lived in

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on the Thames west of London. Robertson's artworks are held by

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1868 births 1934 deaths People from the Province of Como People educated at Charterhouse School English watercolourists English landscape painters English etchers British expatriates in Italy {{UK-printmaker-stub