Artist: Henry Peach Robinson (1830 - 1901)
Nationality: British
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Media: Photography
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Biography:
Bookseller, Henry Peach Robinson taught himself photography by using the instructions written by Dr. Hugh Diamond in the “Journal of the Photographic Society.” In 1857, he abandoned his career to open up a photographic studio that specialized in portraits. Robinson made combination prints that joined multiple negatives to form a single image. At the age of thirty-four, he was forced to give up his medium because of a condition brought on by exposure to toxic chemicals used in the photographic process. However, Robinson continued his involvement, writing the influential essay “Pictorial Effect in Photography, Being Hints on Composition and Chiaroscuro for Photographers,” published in 1868. In 1891, he helped found the photographic society, the Linked Ring

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Henry Peach Robinson - Fading Away 1858 albumen print from w The Royal Photographic Society British
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Henry Peach Robinson - Dawn and Sunset 1885 platinum print from Cleveland Museum of Art British
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John Henry Robinson Henry Somerset, First 18th - 19th century
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Paine of Islington Mr. H. Marston as Hotspur and Mr.F. Robinson as Prince Henry in King Henry IV. 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Hope. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Bonaparte 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Poland 18th - 19th century
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Gilbert Stuart - Ann Calvert Stuart Robinson (Mrs. William Robinson) c. 1804 oil on wood National Gallery of Art American
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John Henry Robinson The Pirate's Daughter. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Sir David Wilkie R. A. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Caroline Norton. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Agnes Beaufort 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Oliver Cromwell 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Bertrand, after L. David 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Lannes, after L. David 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Sir Thomas Gresham 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Daniel O*Connell Esq. M.P. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Bernadotte, after L. David 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Charles James Fox 18th - 19th century
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Artist: Henry P. Bosse Title: Wingdams Opposite Robinson"s Rocks Date: 1891 Medium: cyanotype Dimensions: H.10-1/2
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John Henry Robinson The Lady Blanche Egerton. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Davoust, after Louis David 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Richard First, Earl Howe 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson George Lord Rodney 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson The meeting of Eliezar and Rebecca at the well. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Le Marechal Soult, after Louis David 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Georgiana, Dowager Lady Dover 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson The Lady Clementina Villiers As Ondine 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Frances Diana Manners Sutton. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Joachim Murat, After Louis David 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Sir William Forbes, Bart. of Pitsligo 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Drawing Room At St. James, The Presentation. 18th - 19th century
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John Henry Robinson Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of York etching and engraving 18th - 19th century
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Maurice Utrillo - The Inn at Robinson c. 1918 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art French
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Roger Vivier Pair of sling shoes pointed toe, pink, peach and green fabric 1954
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Gustave Baumann Plum and Peach Bloom color woodcut 1914
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Unidentified [The Taoist immortal Gama carrying his toad and a peach] color woodcut 17 - 18th century
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Peach Pot with Two Cups, Peter Shire (United States, born 1947) , 1978, Earthenware
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Thomas R. Robinson, American, 1835-1888 Arab and Horse, Algiers about 1880 Oil on canvas 63.5
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Small Bird, Tetsugen (Kyusai) (Japan, 1879 - 1938) , early 20th century, Peach stone or walnut? with lacquer, inlays
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Shen Ch"uan Bird on a Branch of a Blossoming Peach Tree Hanging scroll Chinese Qing
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Eisen The Village in the Depths of the Peach Grove at Wulu (Buryo togen) color woodcut circa 1830 - 1836
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Chiharu Peach Blossom (Torika), from an untitled series of Bugaku dancers color woodcut surimono circa 1818 - 1822
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Lantern from the Henry M. Robinson House, Pasadena, Charles Sumner Greene (United States (California, Pasadena), 1868 - 1957) , 1906, Steel and slag glass
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Vase Chinese Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, 1662-1722 China Jingdezhen ware; porcelain with "peach-bloom" glaze 19.9
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Robinson Crusoë dans sa caverne (titre factice) (1er quart 19e siècle) by anonyme
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Le Vrai arbre de Robinson (1930 entre ; 1940 et) by JEAN-HAFFEN Yvonne
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Histoire de Robinson Crusoé. (titre inscrit) (1750 entre ; 1805 et) by BASSET (imprimeur, éditeur)
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Suite de L'Histoire de Robinson Crusoé. (titre inscrit) (1750 entre ; 1805 et) by BASSET (imprimeur, éditeur)
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Deux études de femmes nues (4e quart 16e siècle ; 1ère moitié 17e siècle) by RUBENS Peter Paulus
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Vue du parc de Robinson avec ses attractions foraines, sous de grands arbres (1858 en) by ANASTASI Auguste
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Suite de l'histoire de Robinson Crusoé. (titre inscrit) (2e moitié 18e siècle) by BASSET (imprimeur, éditeur)
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Suite de L'Histoire de Robinson Crusoé. (titre inscrit) (1750 entre ; 1805 et) by BASSET (imprimeur, éditeur)
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Suite de l'histoire de Robinson Crusoé. (titre inscrit) (2e moitié 18e siècle) by BASSET (imprimeur, éditeur)
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The sixth day, Gustav Wolf (Germany, Östringen, 1887 - 1947) , circa 1913, Lithograph handcolored with blue, peach, yellow, red, violet, green, pink and brown watercolor on J. W. Zanders paper
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William Robinson Leigh Lincoln's Assassination pen and black ink 1899
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Sanford Robinson Gifford Windsor Castle oil on canvas 1860
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Boardman Robinson Horse Auction Lithograph 1939

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Renishaw Hall: Paintings by Stuart Robinson, Terence Bennett, and Martin Decent
Terence Bennett is an accomplished watercolour artist from Doncaster in the county of Yorkshire. His works have been exhibited at many prestigious locations, including The Royal Academys and The National Museum of Wales.Stuart Robinson is als...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Pacific Rim: Ann Robinson's Stunning Glasswork
These five impressive Seville works are presented alongside her important earlier works, and a larger selection of works produced after Seville. 'These later works demonstrate how a more skilled and confident Ann Robinson, freed from many of th...
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University: L'ÉCHO DES LIMBES: David Altmejd, Patrice Duhamel, Michael A. Robinson and Ève K. Tremblay
Whether through dreams, tales, delirium or the absurd, these artists create a multi-referential iconography opening onto parallel worlds. They propose the exploration of an elsewhere, of an outside time, even of another duration, in which the proc...
Carnegie Museum of Natural History: Seasons of Western Pennsylvania: The Photography of Donald M. Robinson
Robinson is well known for his photographs of people, landscapes, and animal life. He has traveled internationally, documenting the essence of exotic locales from Arctic glaciers to African deserts t...
Thurber House Gallery: Columbus Collects: A Thurber Center Gallery Retrospective
Thurber House — a literary center, bookstore and museum located in the former home of author, humorist, and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber — opened its doors to the public in 1984. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, Thurber H...
Tacoma Art Museum: Symphonic Poem: Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson
In a review of the exhibition in the February 24, 2006 New York Times, arts critic Grace Glueck wrote. “Ms. Robinson’s magic with materials and her compositional ingenuity draw you in.” In fact, that ingenuity and the artist’s significance w...
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Natives on the Ouse River, Van Diemen's Land 1838
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Hair Stories
This exhibition encompasses mixed media work by Diane Katsiaficas, paintings by nancy Robinson, mixed media work and hand made paper by Erica Spitzer Rasmussen and a video installation by Mara Zoltners. Text and readings by Paulette Alden Bates,...
Cairns Regional Gallery : Torres Strait Exhibition starts national tour
The exhibition includes rare 19th century artefacts from Australian and overseas collections alongside the work of contemporary artists from the Torres Strait Islands. This major exhibition highlights the unique culture and artwork of Australia...
Carengie Museum of Natural History: The Art of Nature Photography Symposium
The speakers are: Anthony E. Cook. Cook is a naturalist, artist and author of The Cook Forest, An Island in Time. He has attained international recognition in the wo...
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University: The Dress Show / La mode dans tous ses états
Clothing is intimately bound up with identity and one's self-projections, marking the outermost boundary between the internally-defined ego and the social world we inhabit. For several years artists have been working with the image of clothing as...
Agora Gallery: Collective Exhibition: Contemporary Art at its Best
From November 14 through December 5, 2006, Collective Exhibition: Contemporary Art at its Best features the idiosyncratic art of artists Paul Gu, Helen Lee, Roni Pinto, Miklos Sipos, Mia Gjerdrum Helgesen, Steven Dickey, Michael Misha Kennedy, Pau...
Bartley Nees Gallery: Sean Kerr: New Media
In addition to this new show at the Bartley Nees Gallery, Seans work is on show with other leading artists from around the world in the new ST@RT UP exhibition at Te Papa where he has deconstructed Don Binneys classic frigate bird painting to crea...
Minneapolis Institute of Arts: American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
In Boston, Edmund Tarbell, Frank Benson, Robert Reid and Frederick Carl Frieseke developed a genteel version of Impressionism related to the culture of that city. Artists such as Daniel Garber and Maurice Prendergast carried Impress...
National Gallery: Americans in Paris
Highlights include Whistler's 'White Girl' from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Sargent's astonishing painting of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and his notorious 'Madame X' from the Metropol...
First Street Gallery: THE FOUNTAINS - Lisa Zwerling
The Fountain of Youth is dedicated to the memory of the five Robinson brothers: the artist's father David and her four uncles Samuel, Julius, Irving, and Ephraim. Irving appears in The Fountain of Youth as the old man carried by the young man o...
Orlando Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Impressionists Abroad and at Home showcases 39 paintings by 28 artists, including two pioneers of American Impressionism, Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent, who caught the spirit of the new French painting during the 1870s. Among the ...
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art: Call for Artists: 2010 INTERNATIONAL JURIED COMPETITION
Entry Fee $30 (three images). Deadline for entries: January 19, 2010. Winners Announced: January 26, 2010. Exhibit Dates: February 11-March 6, 2010.  Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore
They challenged artistic conventions and benefited from the stimulus of the writers, editors, and journalists who were also members of the art colony. ...
San Diego Museum of Art: American Impressionists Abroad and at Home:
Paintings from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections to suggest ways in which the American Impressionists responded to various aspects of the city and subu...
Chris Beetles: Donald McGill Postcard Artwork
McGill's artistic skill and bawdy humour are now made interesting by his unconscious and historical social commentary; his appeal is as fresh now as it was then in our present age of leisure - behaving badly from Blackpool to Ibiza. Who bett...
Robyn Bauer Studio Gallery: Unwearable Art by Sabine Hawkins
Originally from Germany, Sabine arrived in Australia in the 1970’s and trained with William Robinson, Roy Churcher, Errol Barnes and Merv Muelling. Since graduating 27 years ago, Sabine has been teaching up to 60 students every week in her Ashgrov...
Kotkan Valokuvakeskus Gallery: 1st International Festival of NanoArt
NanoArt is a new art discipline related to micro/nanosculptures created by artists/scientists through chemical/physical processes and visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscope or Atomic Force Microscope. The monochr...
Frye Art Museum: Tony Foster: World Views
Foster focuses his energy on painting fragile wilderness regions with an eye to conservation: My work is about wilderness, a celebration of the fact that even on our overcrowded and increasingly polluted planet there exist places o...
San Bernardino County Museum, Fisk Gallery: The Duck Stamp Competition
Public awareness that waterfowl populations were threatened led Congress to enact the Migratory Bird Conservation Act in 1929. This law was largely symbolic, since it contained no fu...
Indianapolis Museum of Art: 300 years of Japanese Painting
Opening May 20 and continuing through August 6, 2000 in the Allen Whitehill Clowes Special Exhibition Gallery, the rare and important paintings highlight the major artists of the Edo period and the many different schools that dev...
Kunstverein Langenhagen: The Sky's The Limit: Fiona Banner, Daniela Brahm, Tobias & Raphael Danke, David Hatcher, Andrew McLeod, Peter Robinson, Yvonne Todd
Yvonne Todd's photograph "Quaalude Eyes" offers an acute image of communication and research - a telescope listening into outer space waiting for a signal to decode. Peter Robinson's body of work "Divine Comedy", presented at the New Zealand Pavil...
Schumacher Gallery, Capital University: African-American Artists of Central Ohio
The exhibit is co-curated by David Barker and includes artwork by Ron Anderson, Talle Bamazi, Garner Chapman, Larry Collins, Ed Colston, Jenita Landerum-Bittles, Bruce Robinson, Melissa Smith, Pheoris West, and Beverly Whiteside. “African-...
City Gallery Wellington: HOME AND AWAY: CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND ART FROM THE CHARTWELL COLLECTION
The exhibition has been drawn from the Chartwell Collection, started in the 1970s by Hamilton businessman R B K Gardiner as a way of bringing contemporary art to Hamilton at a time when the city was without an art gallery. Now numbering aroun...
Ft. Hayes Shot Tower Gallery: When The Spirit Moves: Dance Inspired Works
Pheoris West’s paintings acknowledge Africa as the source for classical art traditions, and he relies upon his African and American cultural influences to inform his imagery. Traditional tales, mythologies and religion inspire the human characters...
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza: Florian Maier-Aichen: Bornemisza: Within the Context of PHotoEspana, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts
Florian Maier-Aichen (born Stuttgart 1973) began his studies in Essen (Germany) then continued his artistic training in Los Angeles where he produced some of his most celebrated images of the Californian coastline, many of them aerial views. Takin...
Ryerson Gallery: Contemporary Ambrotypes: Maayan Kasimov and Rob Norton
To make an ambrotype, dark coloured glass is coated with wet collodian, sensitized in a silver nitrate bath and then exposed by a positive image. The unique qualities of its alchemy produce a remarkable richness of tones that is haunting in its be...
Chris Beetles: From Winnie the Pooh to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Illustrators range from the traditional fairy and childhood world of fantasy of Kate Greenaway, Honor C. Appleton, Margaret Tarrant and Emma Florence Harrison to the contemporary delights of Peter Cross, Nick Butterworth and Emma Chichester Cl...
RED: Ben Woodeson: In too deep
The faint sound of music is occasionally audible throughout the gallery, and the faint smell of tomatoes hints at what is to come. From the bizarrely portable (an appropriated granny trolley) to the absurdly non-portable, a jury rigged transist...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Good Work: The Jim Barr and Mary Barr Collection
It takes a bold collector to buy artworks that have no permanent existence as physical objects. But Wellington couple Jim Barr and Mary Barr have never shied away from challenging or contentious works.From its origins in the early 1970s, the ...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection
Magoons collection of over 4,000 works by contemporary English and American artists, including such major Hudson River School painters as Frederic Edwin Church, Sanford Robinson Gifford and Asher B. Durand, immediately became an integral part...
NURTUREart Non-Profit, Inc.: Fresh, A Limited-Edition Collection Of Original Artwork
Released in an edition of 100 and attractively priced at $40, Fresh makes a fantastic gift for that hard-to-shop for person on your holiday list. The price increases to $50 as of January 1, 2003. The artists chosen for this project are: Kr...
Photographer's Gallery: Malerie Marder
She is the one who connects her subjects together, and she is the one who choreographs and manipulates their poses. She constructs scenarios which hint obliquely at the erotic undercurrents which normally remain submerged in the archet...
GEISAI Miami: Call for Artists: Kaikai Kiki Launches GEISAI MIAMI
Application for GEISAI Miami is open to artists of all nationalities that do not have ongoing commercial gallery representation at the time of their application. A jury of art world professionals, including Tom Eccles, Massimiliano Gioni, Wal...
NanoArt21: 2nd International Festival for NanoArt
NanoArt is a new art discipline at the art-science-technology intersections. It features nanolandscapes (molecular and atomic landscapes which are natural structures of matter at molecular and atomic scales) and nanosculptures (structures created ...

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