Robert Noble (artist)

Robert Noble RSA PSSA (27 January 1857 – 12 May 1917) was a Scottish artist specialising in landscapes.

In 1871 he was apprenticed to an engraver but also worked with his older cousin, James Campbell Noble, who was then an up-and-coming artist.

[3] He died suddenly on 12 May 1917 at home at "The Neuk"[2] in East Linton and is buried nearby in Prestonkirk churchyard.

[4] The grave lies near the north east corner of the church and has a bronze medallion portrait by Henry Snell Gamley.

His son William Balfour Noble (1891–1918) died of wounds sustained in the First World War serving with the 8th battalion Royal Scots.