William Dobson

1610–1646 · Baroque

William Dobson was an English painter who specialised in portrait painting. One of the first significant English painters, he was praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred". The art critic Waldemar Januszczak describes him as the first British born painter of genius.

40 paintings

• Porträt eines Marineoffiziers (1650)
• John Hingston (1650)
• Matthew Locke (1650)
• Richard, Lord Vaughan (1600–1686), 2nd Earl of Carbery (1640)
• Sir Simon Fanshawe (1604–1679) (1645)
• Colonel Berry (1640)
• Sir Edward Walker (1612–1677) (1645)
• Rachel Wriothesley (1636–1723) (1647)
• William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle (1592/1593–1676) (1643)
• Portrait of an Old and a Younger Man (John Taylor and John Denham) (1643)
• Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666), 1st Bt (1644)
• Admiral Robert Blake (1599–1657) (1650)
• Jacob Hall, Rope Dancer (active 1668–1683)
• John Tufton (1609–1664), 2nd Earl of Thanet
• Robert Buxton (1633–1662)
• Dr Robert South (1634–1716)
• Isaac Pennington (c.1584–1661), Lord Mayor of London (1642)
• The Marquis of Montrose (1612–1650)
• John Byron (d.1652), 1st Lord Byron
• Mary Done (1604–1690)
• William Cavendish (1593–1676), 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG
• John Rushworth
• Portrait of the artist with Nicholas Lanier and Sir Charles Cotterell (1640)
• Endymion Porter Around (1640)
• Portrait of a Family, Probably the Streatfeild Family (1645)
• Richard Lovelace (1645)
• Charles I (1600-1649) (1644)
• Portrait of a Man called Abraham Van Der Doort (d.1640) (1632)
• Charles II (1630-85), when Prince of Wales (1644)
• James II (1633-1701), when Duke of York (1644)
• Probably Sir Thomas Aylesbury, Bt (1642)
• Richard Neville (1643)
• Probably Nicholas Oudart (1645)
• Sir Edward Nicholas (1645)
• Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1637)
• The Executioner with the Head of John the Baptist (1640)
• Inigo Jones, 1573-1652 (1642)
• Portrait of a Royalist (1643)
• Portrait of Abraham van der Doort (1640)
• Portrait of an Officer (1645)