Robert Hugh Buxton

On the Clywedog (from "A book of the Severn", 1920)

Robert Hugh Buxton (1 July 1871 – 28 January 1965) was an English oil and watercolour painter and illustrator.

Life

Buxton was born in Harrow, Middlesex in 1871 and studied at the Herkomer School of Art in Bushey, Hertfordshire, and at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He lived in London, exhibiting in the capital at the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters), and the Fine Art Society. He also exhibited in the regions and at the Paris Salon in France.

Buxton mainly painted landscapes, dogs and hunting scenes. His painting Martin on 'Mulberry' with 'Bill' is in the Bushey Museum and Art Gallery.[1]

He died in 1965 at Yardacre House in Lockeridge, Wiltshire.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Martin on 'Mulberry' with 'Bill'". Art UK. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Deaths". The Times. 30 January 1965. p. 1.

Publications

Illustrated books:

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