Robert Lyon - Northumberland Churchyard near Hexham, 20th century watercolour, signed, 33cm x 47cm, within a stained wood frame. Note: Robert Lyon was an artist, mural painter and teacher born in 1894. After his studies at the Royal College of Art, in 1932 he became lecturer in fine art and master of painting at King’s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where from 1934 he tutored the Ashington Group, a group of spare-time Northumberland miner artists and amateur painters. He left Newcastle in 1942, when he became principal of Edinburgh College of Art.