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Henry Robertson Craig RHA RUA (1916 – 1984) was a Scottish painter.

Biography
Henry Robertson Craig, more commonly known as Harry Robertson Craig, was born to Scottish-Irish parents in 1916.

During the mid-1930s he studied at the Dundee College of Art under James MacIntosh Patrick (later RSA). Here, he met his life-long partner, the Irish artist Patrick Hennessy and graduated with a diploma in 1938. The outbreak of World War II the following year prevented him from availing of further study and a travelling scholarship. Enlisting in the war effort he served in the intelligence branch, forging maps and documents to be used by the espionage forces in occupied Europe. In 1947 he moved to Ireland, following Hennessy who had returned to his homeland in 1939. Together they alternated living between Cork and Dublin, eventually settling at a studio on Raglan Lane in Ballsbridge.

In later life, he and Hennessy traveled extensively in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Spain, Italy and Greece. They spent their winters in Morocco and Portugal and their summers working together in Cork and the West of Ireland. In 1980 he and Hennessy permanently moved to the Algarve for health reasons. He remained in Portugal following the death of Hennessy later that year. Henry Robertson Craig died four years later in 1984.