John Henry Robinson

Robinson received a first-class gold medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1855.

Late in life he married a lady of property, which rendered him financially independent of his art.

He was a justice of the peace for the county of Sussex and an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of the Fine Arts at St. Petersburg.

In the next few years he engraved many private portraits and illustrations for books, including A Spanish Lady, after Gilbert Stuart Newton, for the Literary Souvenir of 1827; The Minstrel of Chamonix, after Henry W. Pickersgill, for the Amulet of 1830; The Flower Girl, after Philip Augustus Gaugain (1791-1865), for the Forget me not of 1830; and three plates, after Thomas Stothard, for Samuel Rogers's Italy (1830),24 plates after various artists for Le Bibliophile Jacob' 'Galerie des Femmes de Geoges Sand' 1843 .

Further portraits were those of: He was also responsible for the engraving of the first Belgian postage stamp, the so-called Epaulettes type.