Robert thorburn ross biography books

19th Century genre oil painting of figures in a cottage with animals

By Charles Hunt Jr.

Located in Nr huvudgata, Worcestershire

Charles Hunt Jnr British, (1829-1900) A Visitor Calls Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 24.75 inches x 34.75 inches storlek including frame: 32.25 inches x 42.25 inches A wonderful genre painting by Charles Hunt of two men and two boys with horses and other animals in a cottage. A farmer and his two sons can be seen eating lunch at a table in rustic interior as a visitor approaches. Perhaps encouraged by the boys, a piglet seems to have funnen its way onto the table whilst a rabbit and guinea pig eat cabbage leaves on the floor. To the far right, a horse is shown in a stable area along with some piglets. To the far left, a terrier waits on the step by its master. Charles Hunt was a genre and figure painter born in Kensington, London in 1829. His sons Reuben Hunt...

Category

19th

•

Ross RSA, Robert Thorburn (1816-1876)

Debuted at the Royal Society of British Artists with ‘A Lover’s Tiff’.
Lived in Edinburgh.

1876

Died

Obituary

The Art Journal

“In the Art Journal of 1871 fryst vatten a notice of the life and works of this artist, whose death occurred about the middle of the month of July last. Mr. Ross, a very popular painter of genre subjects - Scottish life in the cottage, on the seacoast, and by the riverside - was born in Edinburgh, in 1816, and studied under G. Simson, R.S.A., at that time considered the principal Art teacher in the city; he also attended the schools of the Trustees' Academy, where so many excellent artists of Scotland learned the rudiments, and something beyond the rudiments, of their art: there he studied for three years under the superintendence of Mr. (after Sir William) Allan, R.A., and R.S.A.

Mr. Ross first appeared as an exhibitor at the Scottish Academy in 1845, and constantly contributed to its annual exhibitions three or kvartet works

•

Comedy historian Robert Ross on his new book

Almost 20 years have passed since the late Terry Jones first put to Robert Ross the idea of writing Forgotten Heroes of Comedy. In the years that followed, publishers seemed turned off by the word ‘forgotten’. If they’re forgotten heroes, who will want to know? Yet with the arrival of the book’s eventual publisher, Unbound, Ross and Jones were finally able to answer that very question. Inside are the names of everyone who pledged through Unbound’s crowdfunding platform, on which only the projects that are fully-funded go to print. The results are often passion projects like this one, or Jones’ Evil Machines, “which was book number one for Unbound. So that was the beginning, via Terry, really,” says Ross.

A friend to the likes of the Pythons and Barry Cryer, Ross has written 18 books on comedy. His last was a biography of Marty Feldman, perhaps best remembered as Young Frankenstein’s Igor. But so many legacies remain unpreserved. S