Background
Robbins, John Williams was born on February 16, 1856 in Windham, Connecticut, United States. Son of Thomas Clemmons and Harriet Louisa (Brownell) Robbins.
Robbins, John Williams was born on February 16, 1856 in Windham, Connecticut, United States. Son of Thomas Clemmons and Harriet Louisa (Brownell) Robbins.
Educational public schools, Windham. Studied architecture in Boston. Graduate Massachusetts State School of Artist
Studied Cowles Art School (Boston), Art Students’ League (New York), and under private masters.
Exhibited oils, water colors, pastels and etchings at Connecticut Academy Fine Arts, Hartford, Connecticut, National Academy Design, New New York And in “one man” exhibitions Inventor of Brule print etching.
Exhibited Brule prints at City Club and Twentieth Century Club, Boston, proofs at The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Congressional Library and National Gallery (Washington, District of Columbia), Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), et cetera
Also inventor of Mezzobrule, a development of Brule print.
Member Connecticut Academy Fine Arts. Fundamentalist in religion.
Married Jennie Annette Woods, December 22, 1886. Children: John Donald, Kenneth West. Newspaper work (cartoonist), 1888-1898.