Robert Henderson Blyth

Robert Henderson Blyth RSW RSA (21 May 1919 – 18 May 1970) was a Scottish landscape painter and artist.

[3][4] Blyth joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1941 and served with them until the end of the Second World War.

During the war Blyth continued to paint and sketch, whilst on active service in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

[6] Towards the end of the conflict Blyth's unit, 157 Ambulance, was based in Hamburg much of which had been devastated by RAF bombing raids in 1943.

Also in 1946 he began teaching at the Edinburgh School of Art and became an artist in residence at Hospitalfield House.