George Robertson (painter)

George Robertson, born in London about 1748, was son of a wine merchant, and received his education from a Mr. Rolfe in Red Lion Street, Clerkenwell.

Robertson drew several views of this property in Jamaica, which on his return were finely engraved by D. Lerpinière, T. Vivares, and J. Mason, and published by John Boydell.

He obtained employment in London as a drawing-master, notably at a ladies' boarding school in Queen Square, Bloomsbury.

He inherited a small fortune from an uncle and a house in Newington Butts, where he died on 26 September 1788, aged about 40.

A series of scenes from James Thomson's Seasons, drawn by Robertson in conjunction with Charles Reuben Ryley, were also engraved.