Charles Rowbotham was the eldest son of Thomas Rowbotham (1823-1875, landscape and marine painter) and grandson of Thomas Leeson Scarse Rowbotham (1783-1853, also a landscape and marine painter). Charles began his career by painting the figures in his father’s landscapes.
Charles Rowbotham exhibited from 1877 at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Hibernian Academy, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Dudley Gallery and the Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham.
Returning to England, Charles Rowbotham lived in Shepherd’s Bush and Acton until 1888 when he moved to Steyning, Sussex.
From 1899 Charles Rowbotham lived in Brighton and from 1913 in Croydon.
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