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Family
Anne Marjorie Robinson was born in Windsor Place in Belfast, County Antrim, on 15 August 1858. She was raised in a Presbyterian family and lived in a household of four, which included her brother John Bernphill Robinson or (John Benyphill Robinson) as known on some records, her mother, Anne Jane Robinson, and her father. It is unknown what her father's name is as there were discrepancies in census records around this time, but she experienced this loss at an early stage before she had any success in her art career. While she was developing as an artist, her brother worked as a Chemical Dispenser, and her mother remained the head of the family; however, she had no official employment on record ever since she had become a widow. Until 1907, Robinson shared a home with her mother, brother, and the family's domestic servant Anne Clarke. After that year, she relocated to London to further her career as an artist.

Early Life
Robinson spent her childhood in Belfast, where she attended school from a young age. It was in the year 1870 when people first took notice of her artistic ability. She was twelve when she began devoting a sizable portion of her time at school to crafting decorations along the margins of her homework pages. The naturalistic patterns created by twigs and flowers inspired these border designs. Her teacher had noticed her eye for art and urged her to study drawing. Robinson was later introduced to a professor named Vere Foster; however, she had not spent much time with him as she was further passed on to John Vinycomb. Vinycomb was head of the art department at Marcus Ward's; this is where she developed her skills and developed as a young artist and became a skilled illuminist. Still, early on in her studies, she began attending classes in the Government School of Design, where she had won prizes and an exhibition of three years of free tuition for proficiency in drawing. In 1890 she began exhibiting her first works at the Belfast Art Society; most of these were portraits and landscapes. Years after her first exhibition, she moved to London to further develop her skill set.