DOBSON, William Date ca. 1642(1642)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Width: 127 cm (50 in). Height: 1,499 cm (590.2 in).
cyf Endymion Porter Around English Baroque Era Painter, ca.1611-1646
English painter. His father, William Dobson, was a gentleman of St Albans employed by Francis Bacon, Viscount Verulam, on the building and decoration at Verulam House and Gorhambury; he was also probably Master of the Alienation Office and a member of the Painter-Stainers' Company, but according to John Aubrey, 'he spending his estate luxuriously upon women, necessity forced his son William Dobson to be the most excellent painter
