(1777 - 1845)
Miniature painter Andrew Robertson was born in Aberdeen; the son of an architect. He worked as a scene-painter in Edinburgh from 1792 and achieved an MA at Marischal College, Aberdeen, in 1794. He studied under A. Nasmyth and met H. Raeburn, whose portraits he copied. Robertson exhibited at the Royal Academy, British Institution and Society of Painters in Watercolours (1802-42), working from studios in Soho, London. In 1805 became miniature painter to the Duke of Sussex, which led to miniatures of Princess Elizabeth, Sophia and Amelia (1807; Royal Collection). He also produced portraits of colonels of London volunteer regiments for a series of engravings. His son, Edward, and brothers, Archibald and Alexander, also worked as miniaturists.
