Peter Watson

A prolonged love affair: The Two Roberts, by Damian Barr, reviewed

3 January 2026 9:00 am

A tender, evocative novel portrays the lives of the once celebrated painters Colquhoun and MacBride, from their first meeting in Glasgow to their fractious later years

Lankily elegant and exquisitely dressed: Peter Watson (right) with Oliver Messel

The frog prince

23 May 2015 9:00 am

It would not have surprised their friends in the 1930s when Peter Watson had a fling with my grandfather, Robert…