Dr Cecil Robertson’s Junks in Harbour, c.1920s

This painting is entitled Junks in Harbour and is by the Scottish artist Dr Robert Cecil Robertson (1890-1942). Robertson and his wife, the artist Eleanor Moore Robertson, moved to Shanghai where he worked as a bacteriologist between 1925 and 1937. Though not noted on the painting or otherwise obvious it seems we can assume this is Shanghai in the 1920s…