Robert Houston

Robert Houston  R.S.W.

British  1891 - 1942

A Highland landscape with loch, cottages on the far bank

Watercolour, signed 'Robert Houston' lower left

Robert Houston was born in June 1891 at Kilbirnie, Ayrshire.  He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and became a painter of landscapes and figurative subjects in oils and watercolours.  He was also an accomplished printmaker.  He was elected to membership of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1936.