Robin Darwin
Sir Robert Vere "Robin" Darwin KCB CBE RA RSA PRWA NEAC was a British artist and Rector of the Royal College of Art.
He was the son of the golf writer Bernard Darwin and his wife the engraver Elinor Monsell. One of his sisters was the potter Ursula Mommens. He was a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin. In 1931 he married Yvonne Darby who was also an artist. After their divorce, he later married Ginette Hewitt, who had been previously married to Lt-Col Kenneth Morton-Evans, OBE, TD and Bar, by whom she had two children, a son, Michael and a daughter, Angela.
This charcoal of Robin Darwin was sketched by Canadian artist , a member of the . It was given by Darwin to , former head of McGill's School of Architecture and later Bland gave it to , who studied and Industrial Design at the RCA around the same time it was drawn, in the early 1950s.
