Robert Herdman

Robert Inerarity Herdman RSA RSW (17 September 1829 – 10 January 1888) was a Scottish artist specialising in portraiture and historical compositions.

He is known to have originally studied divinity at the University of St. Andrews but abandoned this and came to Edinburgh in 1847 to train under Robert Scott Lauder as an artist.

He was a friend of Professor John Stuart Blackie, who instilled in him a love of the Celtic Revival reflected in his later works.

[3] In the 1880s he is listed as living at 12 Bruntsfield Crescent[4] He died in Edinburgh and is buried there in the Grange Cemetery on the outer side of the northern slope to the central vaults.

Their son William Abbott Herdman FRSE was an eminent oceanographer who served on the Challenger Expedition.