(1857 - 1911)
Robert Stewart Clouston was born on the Orkney Islands, northern Scotland. He entered the Royal Scottish Academy schools in 1876 and also studied under the painter and illustrator Sir Hubert von Herkomer at the Herkomer Art School in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Clouston went on to paint genre scenes and portraits, and also produced highly accomplished mezzotint engravings, including prints after 18th-century portraits and contemporary painting. He engraved for the ‘Art Journal’, ‘Burlington Magazine’ and ‘The Connoisseur’. Clouston exhibited paintings and mezzotints the Royal Academy in London (1877-1902) and the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh (1888-97). He emigrated to Australia in 1909 and died in Sydney two years later.
