Robert Back

1922-2004

Australian/British (London, England; Suffolk, England)

Robert Trenaman Back was born at Adelaide, South Australia in 1922. He was only aged fifteen when awarded the President's Prize of the Royal Drawing Society by The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. Back studied at Edinburgh College of Art in 1940 and 1946-1949. His tuition was interrupted by World War II when he served in the merchant navy, and the sea turned into his hobby, being Norfolk Broads dinghy champion and an Olympic triathlon athlete. He married at Kensington, London in 1958, and after his marriage he returned to teaching art at Seaford, Sussex, and built a studio in the attic of his cottage. 

A painter with a strong interest in marine subjects and a member and exhibitor at the Norfolk & Norwich Art Circle 1946-1953 from Oulton Broad, Suffolk. He exhibited at the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Royal Scottish Academy also at Messum Fine Art and the Malcolm Henderson Gallery.

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Back, Robert 1922-2004
The Wavertree
1974
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