Robert Hawthorn Kitson b. 1873 Leeds, Yorkshire, England d. 1947 : Sandison Family History

1873 - 1947

Birth	1873	Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Gender	Male
Emigration	Italy
Occupation	Artist
1881 Census	Headingley Cum Burley, Yorkshire, England
1891 Census	Shrewsbury St Julian, Shropshire, England - Boarding Scholar
Died	1947
Person ID	I6940	Sandison/Roscoe Tree
Last Modified	18 Apr 2007

Father	John Hawthorn Kitson, b. 17 May 1843, Hunslet, Yorkshire, England , d. 21 May 1899
Mother	Jessie Ellershaw, b. 1843, Leeds, Yorkshire, England , d. 26 Apr 1922
Married	1868	Kirkstall, Yorkshire, England
Family ID	F2202	Group Sheet

Notes

Robert Kitson was the son of J.H. Kitson of Elmet Hall, Roundhay, Leeds. The Kitson family business was locomotive engineering, but Robert Kitson became an artist, (mainly in the medium of watercolour), exhibiting regularly at the Leeds Fine Arts Club, the Royal Academy and the Society of British Artists. He was a pupil and friend of Alfred East, R.A. and it was through East that he met Sir Frank Brangwyn and became his friend and patron, commissioning a number of works, most notably the mosaic cycle for the apse of St. Aidan's Church in Roundhay. For health reasons, Kitson settled in Sicily where he designed his own villa, the Casa Cuseni in Taormina, which he was forced to abandon after the outbreak of the Second World War, but returned there shortly before his death in 1947. [http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/handlists/128MS1652Kitson.pdf]

Robert Hawthorn Kitson[1]