Robert Hawker Dowling
Illustration — Group of Natives of Tasmania (1859) Robert Hawker Dowling (1827 – 8 July 1886) was an Australian colonial artist.
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Robert Hawker Dowling
Robert Dowling · https: nga.gov.au/exhibition/DOWLING/Default.cfm?IRN=191995 BioArtistIRN=22797 MnuID=3 GalID=6 ViewID=2 · Public domain
- Born
- 1827 · Colchester.
- Died
- 1886 · London.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- painting
- Teachers
- Thomas Bock
- Languages
- English
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Illustration — Group of Natives of Tasmania (1859) Robert Hawker Dowling (1827 – 8 July 1886) was an Australian colonial artist.
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Training under Thomas Bock is recorded. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is painting. Places of work recorded in the authority are Melbourne. Work by Robert Hawker Dowling is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, National Gallery of Australia, National Portrait Gallery, Art Gallery of South Australia and London Museum.
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. 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.
The origin of Sunday schoolː Hare Lane, Gloucester, 1780 (Robert Dowling)
Robert Hawker Dowling · The Church of England: a History for the People, Volume 4 by Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones. Cassel Comp., London, 1898. Onlineː
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