Sir Robert Vere Darwin CBE RA RSA (7 May 1910 – 30 January 1974), known as Robin Darwin, was a British artist, President of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, and Rector of the Royal College of Art.

He was the son of the golf writer Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell.

After serving as Professor of Fine Art at the University of Durham for two years, he joined the Royal College of Art in 1948, first as principal, then as Rector and Vice-Provost when the college gained university status in 1967.

[1] This charcoal of Robin Darwin was sketched by Canadian artist Arthur Lismer, a member of the Group of Seven.

It was given by Darwin to John Bland, former head of McGill's School of Architecture and later Bland gave it to Norman Slater, who studied Architecture at McGill and Industrial Design at the RCA around the same time it was drawn in the early 1950s.