Robert Hopkin
Detroit's marine painter, and the reason the city's Scarab Club exists.
This artist's work is shown through the museum and artist links on this page while it remains under copyright or awaits a permission-cleared image.
Hopkin immigrated from Scotland in 1843 and settled in Detroit. He painted landscapes, animals and history subjects in oil and watercolor, and marine views became his specialty.
He was also a working decorator. He painted the interior of the Detroit Opera House in 1869 and the Cotton Exchange in New Orleans in 1883, along with banners for Detroit's Civil War units and the Landing of Cadillac banner for the city's 1901 bicentennial.
A large show of his work at the Detroit Museum of Art in 1907 led fellow artists to found the Hopkin Club, which was later renamed the Scarab Club.