Painting ID:: 6409
Endymion Porter fgh c. 1643
Oil on canvas, 59 x 50 cm
Tate Gallery, London
DOBSON, William 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 Endymion Porter fgh c. 1643
Oil on canvas, 59 x 50 cm
Tate Gallery, London
