Robert Jobling

Italian/Austrian (1841-1923)

Robert Jobling (1841-1923), a native of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, began his career as a glassmaker alongside his father. After attending evening classes at the Newcastle School of Art, Jobling took a job as a foreman painter in a shipyard and later, following a successful art exhibition in 1899, focused exclusively on painting. His marines, landscapes, and genre scenes were exhibited at Suffolk Street in London and at the prestigious Royal Academy throughout the later decades of the nineteenth century.