b. early 1900; date of death not known
Robertson was an early war photographer, who covered the Crimean War (1855) and the Indian Mutiny (1857), a sequel to the work by Fenton. In 1857 he was appointed official photographer to the British forces in India. Some of Robertson's photographs of the aftermath of the siege of Lucknow in 1858 are quite harrowing.
Together with his assistant, Felice Beato, he photographed views of Athens, Malta and Constantinople, and they both continued to visit the Middle East after the Crimean War.
Some of his work may be seen at the Indian Record Office, the Imperial War Museum and at the Victoria and Albert Museum, all in London.
© Robert Leggat, 1999.