Background
He was born at Bolton, Lancashire and was brought up in Staffordshire.
He was born at Bolton, Lancashire and was brought up in Staffordshire.
At the age of 18 he became a pupil of James Heath, for about two years. Robinson was one of the nine eminent engravers who, in 1836, petitioned the House of Commons on the state engraving in this country, and who with others in 1837, addressed a petition to the king asking for the admission of engravers to the highest rank in the Royal Academy: which was not conceded until some years later. He died at New Grove, Petworth, Sussex, where he had long resided, on 21 October 1871, aged 75.
He was a justice of the peace for the county of Sussex and an honorary member of the Imperial Academy of the Fine Arts at Saint St. Petersburg.