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Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson essay on Raeburn, accompanying a volume of reproductions from that master's works, was published posthumously (1900). Stevenson was the leader of a new school of art criticism in England. The aims and methods of 'impressionism' found in him a champion of rare brilliancy. At the same time, in dealing with the works of the living, he was scrupulously kind and fair towards other tendencies with which he was less in sympathy. Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (1847–1900) was a Scottish art critic, a cousin of the writer Robert Louis Stevenson and the brother of Katharine de Mattos.