Charles Robinson was born in Islington, London, England as the son of an illustrator, and the brother of famous illustrators Thomas Heath Robinson and William Heath Robinson. He spent his early education at the Highbury School of art and then went on to serve a seven-year apprenticeship at a lithographic printers in Finsbury. He also took art lessons in the evenings.
It wasn’t until the age of twenty-five that Robinson began to sell his work professionally. He quickly developed his own unique style, based on the then contemporaneous influences of Pre-Raphaelitism and Art Nouveaux. Robinson was particularly inspired by the delicate watercolours of Aubrey Beardsley, Japanese artworks, and the woodcuts of the old masters such as Albrecht Dürer.
His first full book was Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses (1895) with a beautiful set of 100 pen and ink drawings. The book was very well-received, going through a number of print runs. Over the rest of his life, Robinson illustrated many more fairy tales and children’s books. These included Eugene Field’s Lullaby Land (1897), Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1907), the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm (1910), Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden (1911), and Oscar Wilde’s The Happy Prince (1913).
Robinson was also an active painter, especially in later life. He was elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1932. He had exhibited his watercolour works at the Royal Academy for many years previous, and was also a member of the London Sketch Club.
(source: https://www.pookpress.co.uk/project/charles-robinson-biography/)