DOBSON, WILLIAM — portrait painter, born in London; succeeded Vandyck as king s serjeant painter to Charles I.; painted the king and members of his family and court; supreme in his art prior to Sir Joshua Reynolds; died in poverty (1610 1646) … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
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