Maria Dorothy Webb (Exh. 1881-1910) The Goose Girl Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 54.5cm, (29 x 21.5'') Signed Maria Webb was probably a student at the R.D.S. Schools. She started exhibiting at the R.H.A....

Maria Dorothy Webb (Exh. 1881-1910) The Goose Girl Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 54.5cm, (29 x 21.5'') Signed Maria Webb was probably a student at the R.D.S. Schools. She started exhibiting at the R.H.A. in 1873, and won several prizes at the Amateur Artists' Society in 1877. She went to Paris in 1880, becoming a pupil of Robert-Fleury at the Academie Julian. She made regular summer visits to Brittany, c. 1881-1885, initially to Pont-Aven, then becoming one of the early foreign members of the artist colony at Concarneau. There she stayed at the Hotel des Voyageurs. She became a close friend of Finnish artist, Maria Wiik. She is thought to have met her future husband, Harry Harewood Robinson, at Concarneau and they were to later become central figures in the artists'colony at St. Ives, Cornwall. Their house provided studios for friends and visiting artists. Maria exhibited a large number of her Breton paintings, of fishermen and peasant women, of street, market and woodland scenes, at venues in Dublin, London, and Liverpool, 1881-87, and, significantly, at the Parish Salon, 1883-84. Dr. Julian Campbell

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