Robert Swain Gifford (December 23, 1840 – January 15, 1905) was an American landscape painter.

[2][3] When Gifford was a teen, the Dutch painter Albertus Van Beest arrived in New Bedford, and the two collaborated on ship paintings.

He travelled and painted in Oregon and California, then left for Europe, where he visited Great Britain, France, Italy and Spain.

He was joined by fellow artists such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, and painted some subjects from those regions.

He, along with Victorian contemporaries from the White Mountain and Hudson River Schools, helped immortalize the majestic cliffs of Grand Manan in the Bay of Fundy.