Robert (1st) Clayton (fl. c. 1834) - Wood Engraver - From A Dictionary of Irish Artists 1913 - Third son of Benjamin (1st) Clayton. - and was born in Ireland.

wood engraver, was born in Dublin, the youngest brother of Samuel Clayton and third son of the Irish engraver Benjamin (1st) Clayton and his first wife. All three brothers were professional engravers, trained by their father. After working as his father’s assistant Robert engraved a series of views of the Dublin and Kingston railways after Andrew Nicholl. He contributed to the Dublin Penny Journal of 1834.

He assisted his brother Benjamin and also did some wood-engraving for himself, contributing to the "Dublin Penny Journal" in 1834 and 1835. He also engraved Andrew Nicholl's series of thirteen "Views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway" in 1835. He was a teacher of drawing and was successful for a time as a polisher of cut glass decanters, but he was idle and a ne'er-do-well, and finally went to Australia, where he made a precarious living chiefly in assisting his brother Samuel (q.v.). - (Ref- http://www.libraryireland.com/irishartists/robert-clayton.php).

Artist Wood engraver born in Ireland. Came to NSW as a free settler but was not permitted to leave the colony.

Robert (1st) Clayton died in Australia ......

Robert (1st) Clayton married Miss .......

Thomas Clayton, was born in Ireland. His parents being Robert (1st) Clayton & .....

Robert and his son Thomas were convicted of forging and uttering stamps in February 1834, but were allowed to come to New South Wales as free settlers because of information they had passed on to the authorities.

Neither, however, was permitted to leave the colony. A few plates in James Maclehose’s Picture of Sydney, published in 1838, are Robert’s only identified Australian works. Strickland called him 'idle and a ne’er-do-well’.

1. Samuel Clayton - parents Benjamin (1st) & Eleanor Clayton.

2. Benjamin (2nd) Clayton - (b. 1786, d. 1862)

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