Robin Craig Guthrie
(1902-1971), PainterSitter in 1 portrait
Artist of 20 portraits
Robin Guthrie was born in Harting, Sussex, the son of James Joshua Guthrie (1874-1952), also an artist and writer, and the founder of the Pear Tree Press. He studied at the Slade School of Art (1918-22) under Philip Wilson Steer and Henry Tonks and from 1923 exhibited with the New English Art Club; later his work was shown in the Goupil Gallery and at the Fine Art Society. His draughtsmanship was admired from early in his career and in addition to painting and drawing landscapes and portraits he undertook book illustrations, including his father's A Wild Garden (1924).
by Robin Craig Guthrie
crayon
NPG 6506
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pen and ink and crayon, 1930s?
NPG 6509
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pencil, pen and ink and crayon, 1930s?
NPG 6510
James William Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pencil, pen and ink and crayon, 1930s?
NPG 6513
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pencil, pen and ink on paper laid on card, circa 1936
NPG 6507
Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin
by Robin Craig Guthrie
ink and chalk, 1937
NPG 3935
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pencil, pen and ink and crayon, 1937
NPG 6504
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pencil, pen and ink, crayon and white chalk, 1939
NPG 6505
Leslie Hore-Belisha, Baron Hore-Belisha
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pen and ink and crayon, 1939
NPG 6508
by Robin Craig Guthrie
oil on canvas, circa 1946
NPG 5974
by Robin Craig Guthrie
black and white chalk on paper laid on card, 1950s?
NPG 6502
William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pencil on paper laid on card, 1950s?
NPG 6511
William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Baron Sempill
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pencil, 1950s?
NPG 6512
by Robin Craig Guthrie
crayon, 1950s?
NPG 6514
by Robin Craig Guthrie
pencil and crayon, 1958
NPG 6503
by Robin Craig Guthrie
linocut, after 1917
NPG D7663
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Crispin Robinson
26 September 2022, 17:44
My family through my mother Rosemary Robinson inherited three Guthrie works of art. Her great aunt was Ernestine Greaves with whom Robin G had an affair in the mid 1930s. They also travelled to Germany together before the war. He painted her portrait; we have a print of the poet Edward Thomas (you have it too I believe) and a fine drawing of a young man dated 1935.