Henry Peach Robinson (9 July 1830 in Ludlow, Shropshire – 21 February 1901) was an English Pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives to form a single image, the precursor to photomontage. Oscar Gustave Rejlander of Wolverhampton was however, the first to establish this art in 1857, a year earlier than Robinson.
Robinson was the eldest of the four children of John Robinson, a Ludlow s...
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Henry Peach Robinson (9 July 1830 in Ludlow, Shropshire – 21 February 1901) was an English Pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives to form a single image, the precursor to photomontage. Oscar Gustave Rejlander of Wolverhampton was however, the first to establish this art in 1857, a year earlier than Robinson.
Robinson was the eldest of the four children of John Robinson, a Ludlow schoolmaster, and his wife Eliza. He was educated at Horatio Russell's academy in Ludlow until he was thirteen, when he took a year's drawing tuition with Richard Penwarne before being apprenticed to a Ludlow bookseller and printer, Richard Jones.
While continuing to study art, his initial career was in bookselling, in 1850 working for the Bromsgrove bookseller Benjamin Maund, then in 1851 for the London-based Whittaker & Co. In 1852 he exhibited an oil painting, On the Teme Near Ludlow, at the Royal Academy. That same year he began taking...
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