Robert Levrac Tournieres Thomas William Robertson (9 January 1829 ?C 3 February 1871), usually known professionally as T. W. Robertson, was an Anglo-Irish dramatist and innovative stage director best known for a series of realistic or naturalistic plays produced in London in the 1860s that broke new ground and inspired playwrights such as W.S. Gilbert and George Bernard Shaw. Count Ferdinand Adolf von Plettenberg and his Family 1727 Oil on canvas, 92 x 74 cm