A PAIR OF PLASTER BAS-RELIEF PORTRAITS DEPICTING A GENTLEMAN AND GENTLEWOMAN IN PROFILE. THOUGHT TO BE OF HENRY PEACH ROBINSON RPS (1830 -1901) AND HIS WIFE, SELINA, THE LATTER BEING INSCRIBED ’IHMF’ AND DATED 1902.

A PAIR OF PLASTER BAS-RELIEF PORTRAITS DEPICTING A GENTLEMAN AND GENTLEWOMAN IN PROFILE. THOUGHT TO BE OF HENRY PEACH ROBINSON RPS (1830 -1901) AND HIS WIFE, SELINA, THE LATTER BEING INSCRIBED ’IHMF’ AND DATED 1902.

LABEL VERSO – FRAMED BY H.P. ROBINSON & SON
REMBRANDT STUDIOS, REDHILL.

     The portraits bear a strong resemblance to published photographs of Mr and Mrs Henry Peach Robinson. Completed in the year following his death, the portraits were possibly commissioned 

by a family member in memorial. Henry Peach Robinson was the leading English photographer 

      of the second half of the 19th century. His dipiction of the death of a young girl and her grieving  

      family entilted ‘Fading Away’ (exhibited 1858), established him as the leading pictorial photographer 

      and he remains one of the most influential and famous English photographers of the time. 

      His son, Ralph W. Robinson (1862-1942) continued to run the studio after his death.

The surface of the portraits have a limewash finish and are framed in their original broad 

quarter-cut oak frames, typical of the period and in the manner of the Arts & Crafts movement. 

Each bears the Rembrandt Studio paper label on the reverse.