. Dictionary of painters and engravers. butor. Apicture by him called Harrowing was also in theInternational Exhibition of 1862. His landscuiiesshow a truthful feeling for nature, and are higlilyfinished, though somewhat varying in merit. Hedied in London in 1873. DAWE, George, a portrait painter, was born inLondon in 1781. He was the son of Philip Dawc,the mezzotint-engraver, by whom he was broughtup to his own branch of art, but he abandoned itfor painting, after having executed a few plates ofgreat merit. In 1819 ho went to Russia, wherehe painted for the Emperor about 400 portraitsof the c
. Dictionary of painters and engravers. butor. Apicture by him called Harrowing was also in theInternational Exhibition of 1862. His landscuiiesshow a truthful feeling for nature, and are higlilyfinished, though somewhat varying in merit. Hedied in London in 1873. DAWE, George, a portrait painter, was born inLondon in 1781. He was the son of Philip Dawc,the mezzotint-engraver, by whom he was broughtup to his own branch of art, but he abandoned itfor painting, after having executed a few plates ofgreat merit. In 1819 ho went to Russia, wherehe painted for the Emperor about 400 portraitsof the chiefs of the Russian army, who had, withthe assistance of the snow, vanr|uiBhed became an Associate of the Royal Academy in1809, and an Academician in 1814. He mademuch money by his expedition to Russia, but didnot live to enjoy it ; for he died six weeks afterhis return to England in 1829, and was buried inSt Pauls Cathedral. His portraits arc reckonedgood likenesses of the persons, but not expressiveof character. ir. <. I < o 1/5
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