Robert Walker Macbeth

Robert Walker Macbeth RA (30 September 1848 – 1 November 1910) was a Scottish painter, etcher and watercolourist, specialising in pastoral landscape and the rustic genre.

Born in Glasgow, Macbeth studied art in London, producing realistic everyday scenes and working as an illustrator for the weekly newspaper The Graphic.

He painted in the Lincolnshire and Somerset countryside, his landscape work influenced by that of George Heming Mason and Frederick Walker.

In the same year (1871) Macbeth was made an associate of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) becoming a full member in 1901.

[4] Their second daughter, Norma Robina Macbeth married John Thomas Hall in 1924.

Fair Rosalind (1888)
Our First Tiff , by Macbeth, oil on canvas, 1878