Robert Hawker Dowling
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Robert Hawker Dowling (1827 – 8 July 1886) was an Australian colonial artist.
Dowling was born in England the youngest son of Rev. Henry Dowling and his wife Elizabeth, née Darke. He was brought to Launceston, Tasmania with his parents in 1839 in the Janet. He received lessons from Thomas Bock and Frederick Strange, and in 1850 advetised a portrait painter. In 1856 left for London partly with the help of friends in Launceston. He exhibited 16 pictures at the Royal Academy between 1859 and 1882 and others at the British Institute. Returning to Launceston he afterwards came to Melbourne and painted portraits of Sir Henry Loch, Dr James Moorhouse, Francis Ormond, and others. He went to London again in 1886 but died shortly after his arrival.
Dowling was a conscientious painter of figure subjects, often scriptural or eastern. He is represented in the Melbourne and Launceston galleries.
On 2 May 2007, one of Dowling's paintings – Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with the Aborigine Jamie Ware – was bought for A$823,500 by the National Gallery of Victoria. [1]
[edit] References
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Dowling, Robert". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.
- Isabella J. Mead, 'Dowling, Robert Hawker (1827 - 1886)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1972, p. 98.
[edit] External links
- Robert Dowling at ARTcyclopedia
- Grandfather's visit 1865 - Ballarat Fine Art Gallery.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain 1949 edition of Dictionary of Australian Biography from Project Gutenberg of Australia, which is in the public domain in Australia and the United States of America.
