Robert Noble

Robert Noble RSA PSSA (27 January 1857 – 12 May 1917) was a Scottish artist specialising in landscapes. He was the first President of the Society of Scottish Artists. Life He was born in Edinburgh to Thomas Noble (b.1825), a railwayman, and his wife, Janet Inglis. In 1871 he was apprenticed to an engraver but also worked with his older cousin, James Campbell Noble, who was then an up-and-coming artist. He encouraged him to study further and Robert went to Paris to train under Carolus-Duran. Here his genre changed from figurative to mainly landscapes.