Henry Robertson Craig On Sale
Vintage 1950s Scottish Paintings
Canvas
People Also Browsed
1920s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Oil
1990s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Black and White, Giclée, Pigment, Arc...
Antique Mid-19th Century English Georgian Floor Mirrors and Full-Length ...
Giltwood
Vintage 1970s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Crystal
2010s English Books
Paper
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
1950s Modern Figurative Photography
Silver Gelatin
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Watercolor, Sumi Ink
20th Century Scottish Paintings
Vintage 1950s Turkish Posters
Paper
Vintage 1940s American Modern Credenzas
Brass
Mid-20th Century Glass
Glass
1990s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Photographic Film, Pi...
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Resin, Wood
1940s Modern Figurative Photography
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
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Henry Robertson Craig also called Harry was a Scottish painter, who worked extensively in the UK and Ireland. He studied at the Dundee College of Art in the mid-1930s under James Macintosh Patrick. It was there that he met his life-long partner, Irish artist Patrick Hennessey. During the Second World War, Robertson Craig served in the intelligence branch, forging maps and documents to be used by the espionage forces in occupied Europe. After the war, in 1947, he moved to Ireland, alternating between Cork and Dublin. He, with Hennessey, eventually settled in a studio on Raglan Lane in Ballsbridge. He moved to the Algarve, in Portugal, for health reasons in 1980 and lived there until his death in 1984.
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