Sepia tone ink etching of a gravedigger hard at work by Robert Bryden c. 1910. No edition noted.

Robert Bryden was born at Coylton, Ayrshire in 1865. He studied at the RSA and RA Schools in London and went on to travel in Italy and Spain, sketching as he went. Eventually he returned to settle in Ayrshire where he produced a vast amount of work in a variety of media. Local scenes and people were his main subjects and his work thus provides a valuable historical resource for the south-west of England.