‘Subtle and charming’ Dawson enamel
The career course of Edith Robinson (1862-1929), a London art teacher and painter of chocolate box watercolours was changed in 1893 when she and her new husband, the Stamford artist Nelson Dawson (1859-1941) attended a series of lectures given by the enameller Alexander Fisher.
She ditched her previous medium in favour of the Arts and Crafts revival and a metalworking studio…