Robert Baldwin Ross
Robert Baldwin Ross
Robert Baldwin "Robbie" Rosswas a Canadian journalist, art critic and art dealer, probably best known for his relationship with Oscar Wilde, to whom he was a devoted friend and literary executor. A grandson of the Canadian reform leader Robert Baldwin, and son of John Ross and Augusta Elizabeth Baldwin, Ross was a pivotal figure on the London literary and artistic scene from the mid-1890s to his early death, and mentored several literary figures, including Siegfried Sassoon. His open homosexuality, in...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionCelebrity
Date of Birth25 May 1869
CountryFrance
I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.
The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.