Robert Home

Robert Home (1752–1834) was a British oil portrait painter who travelled to the Indian subcontinent in 1791.

Born in Hull in the United Kingdom as the son of an eminent army surgeon from Greenlaw in Berwickshire,[1] He trained with Angelica Kauffman, who lodged with his family in London in 1766, and then at the Royal Academy Schools in 1769.

On 5 February 1791, Home was allowed to follow Lord Cornwallis' army in the Third Anglo-Mysore War as it moved towards Bangalore.

He was for some time Secretary of the Society and the first Library-in-Charge (1804), and donated his small but valuable art collection.

His Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan were published in London and Madras in 1794, and in Calcutta he made 215 watercolours of Indian mammals, birds and reptiles, some of which he also worked up as oils.