Robert Hawthorn Kitson

British painter (1873-1947) Date Of Birth : 1873-01-01T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1947-09-01T00:00:00Z

Robert Hawthorn Kitson (3 July 1873 — 17 September 1947) was a British painter. As a gay man, he chose to leave England, where the Labouchere Amendment made life difficult. He settled in Sicily, where he built a villa in Taormina, Casa Cuseni, that is now a historic house museum.

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