Robert Buhler RA (23 November 1916 – 20 June 1989) was a Swiss landscape and portrait artist who was born in England, where he mostly worked.
He befriended members of the Euston Road School, some of whom visited his mother's bookshop, and this influenced him towards landscape painting and his use of restrained tones, although he did not join the group.
[4][3] When the National Registration Act 1939 recorded all residents in October 1939, Buhler's parents were divorced, and he and his first wife were living in Doughty Street, St Pancras, where he was registered as "Painter, Commercial Artist".
While mostly a painter of places, he was also a portrait artist, his sitters including Francis Bacon, Barnett Freedman, John Minton, Ruskin Spear, Stephen Spender,[6] and Edith Evans playing Volumnia in Coriolanus.
[9] On 21 February 1956 he was promoted to a full Royal Academician,[8] and in that capacity took part in the selection process for the Academy’s Summer Exhibition.