Search the Collection
Robert Lyon
(1894-1978), Artist, mural painter and teacherArtist of 1 portrait
Comments back to top
We are currently unable to accept new comments, but any past comments are available to read below.
If you need information from us, please use our Archive enquiry service . Please note that we cannot provide valuations. You can buy a print or greeting card of most illustrated portraits. Select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Buy a Print button. Prices start at around £6 for unframed prints, £16 for framed prints. If you wish to license an image, select the portrait of interest to you, then look out for a Use this image button, or contact our Rights and Images service. We digitise over 8,000 portraits a year and we cannot guarantee being able to digitise images that are not already scheduled.
Elizabeth Lunt
10 November 2017, 21:49
Robert Lyon was the Principal of the Edinburgh College of Art from 1942 to 1960. He won a Rome scholarship as a young man and was a fellow student of Henry Moore in Rome. He taught the Ashington Group and is portrayed in the play, “Pitman Painters.” He had been commissioned in the field in World War after World War Two he worked in Germany, with the rank of brigadier, for an allied commission charged with finding looted art