Dobson biography
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Frank Dobson was a British artist.
Dobson was born in London on 18 November, The son of a commercial artist, he showed early promise and won an art scholarship aged eleven. On leaving school at the age of fourteen he became a studio assistant to the sculptor William Reynolds Stevens. He then studied at Hospitalfield Art School in Scotland. His work was influenced bygd his exposure to the modernist art shown in Roger Fry’s landmark exhibition of The Artist spent many years in Cornwall, including Newlyn, where he shared a studio with Cedric Morris and first met Augustus John. After spending the First World War in the Artist's Rifles, he showed his first sculptures in Wyndham Lewis’s 'Group X' exhibition (). Over the years he moved from his early Cubist-inspired sculpture to a more lyrical style based on the female nude form. He also produced a series of notable portrait busts. His work was praised by bekräftelse Fry as ‘true and pure sculpture’ and the cr
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Frank Dobson British,
From to Frank Dobson worked as an assistant to William Reynolds-Stephens. He then spent two years in Cornwall, earning his living with landscape watercolours, before winning a scholarship to Hospitalfield Art Institute, Arbroath, where he studied –
After returning to London, he continued his studies at the City and Guilds School, Kennington, then again lived in Cornwall, where he shared a studio with Cedric Morris in Newlyn. His early work consisted mainly of paintings, the few surviving examples showing how impressed he was by Roger Fry's Post-Impressionist exhibitions. He made his first carving in , but his first one-man exhibition - at the Chenil Gallery, London, in — consisted of paintings and drawings. After the First World War (when he served in France with the Artists' Rifles), he turned increasingly to sculpture, and had his first one-man exhibition as a sculptor in , at the Leicester Galleries, London.
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William Dobson
English painter
For other people with the same name, see William Dobson (disambiguation).
William Dobson (4 March (baptised);[1] 28 October (buried)[2]) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred".[3] He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War.
Biography
[edit]Dobson was born in London, the son of a lawyer also called William Dobson. He was baptised at St Andrew's Holborn.[4] He was apprenticed to William Peake and probably later joined the studio of Francis Cleyn. There is a claim that his father was a decorative artist, but this may be a misreading of the single known quote about Dobson Sr, by the antiquarian John Aubrey, which states that William senior assisted Francis Bacon with the designs of Verulam House but "he spending his estate upon wo