Robert Borlase Smart RBA ROI RBC RWA SMA, generally known as Borlase Smart (11 February 1881, Kingsbridge, Devon – 3 November 1947, St Ives, Cornwall)[1] worked as an art editor and critic on the Western Morning News / Illustrated Western Weekly News from 1901 to 1913,[2] but is principally known as an artist, in which capacity he became a founding member of the St Ives School during the years following his return from the First World War.[3]