Robert Noble (artist)
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Robert Noble RSA PSSA (27 January 1857 – 12 May 1917) was a Scottish artist specialising in landscapes. He was the first President of the Society of Scottish Artists.
He was born in Edinburgh to Thomas Noble (b.1825), a railwayman, and his wife, Janet Inglis.
In 1871 he was apprenticed to an engraver but also worked with his older cousin, James Campbell Noble, who was then an up-and-coming artist.[1] He encouraged him to study further and Robert went to Paris to train under Carolus-Duran. Here his genre changed from figurative to mainly landscapes.[2]
In the early 1880s he joined a small community of artists in the picturesque village of East Linton, east of Edinburgh. Here he worked alongside Thomas Bromley Blacklock and William Miller Frazer.
In 1890, he was co-founder of the Society of Scottish Artists and served as their first President. In 1892 he became an Associate of the Royal Scottish Academy and in 1903 became a full member.
In 1905 he was residing at 12 Queen Street in the New Town, Edinburgh.[3]
He died suddenly on 12 May 1917 at home at "The Neuk"[2] in East Linton and is buried nearby in Prestonkirk churchyard.[4] The grave lies near the north east corner of the church and has a bronze medallion portrait by Henry Snell Gamley.[5] He was an elder of the church there. He was an avid angler and golfer and was also a freemason.[2]
In May 2017 East Linton marked the centenary of his death.[6]
