Edith Dawson

Edith Brearey Dawson (née Robinson; 1862 – 4 March 1929) was an English artist, jeweller and member of the Arts and Crafts movement.

In the 1880s Robinson was working as an art teacher and earning extra money through selling watercolours, primarily depicting cottage gardens and flowers.

Edith Dawson was a perfectionist and her enamels are of exceptionally high quality, with a delicate, jewel-like appearance that is easily recognisable.

They continued to create, and in 1917 exhibited several commemorative and heraldic plaques at the Royal Academy including one bearing the Arms of Trinity College, Cambridge in bronze and champlevé enamel.

During her career Dawson also exhibited works with both the New English Art Club and the Royal Society of British Artists.

An enamel plaque by Edith Dawson in a silver frame by Nelson Dawson