John Charles Dollman
RWS RI ROI (6 May 1851 – 11 December 1934) was an English painter and illustrator.
Life
Dollman was born in
Hove
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on 6 May 1851 and moved to London to study at
South Kensington
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and the
Royal Academy Schools
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, after which he set up a studio at
Bedford Park, London
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, designed for him by
Maurice Bingham Adams
Maurice Bingham Adams FRIBA (1849–1933) was a British architect in the Arts and Crafts movement, Arts and Crafts style.Curl, J. S., & Wilson, S., (2015) ''The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture'', 3rd edn, (OUP, Oxford)
Life
Adams was born in 1 ...
.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1870 to 1912, and was elected RWS (Member of the
Royal Watercolour Society
The Royal Watercolour Society is a British institution of painters working in watercolours. The Society is a centre of excellence for water-based media on paper, which allows for a diverse and interesting range of approaches to the medium of wa ...
) in 1913. Dollman was also an illustrator, working in black and white or colour for magazines such as ''
The Graphic
''The Graphic'' was a British weekly illustrated newspaper, first published on 4 December 1869 by William Luson Thomas's company Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. Thomas's brother Lewis Samuel Thomas was a co-founder. The premature death of the latt ...
'' during and after the 1880s. Some of his early work has been said to have influenced
Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
.
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Works
A central theme was ambitious mythological pictures such as ''a Viking Foray'', a Viking horde entitled ''the Ravager'', ''The Unknown'' (1912), featuring a girl surrounded by chimps and ''Orpheus and his Lute with Lions''. He also produced bold compositions of animals and people such as ''Robinson Crusoe and His Man Friday'', ''Polo'' and ''Mowgli made leader of the Bandar-log'' (1903).
His best known work is possibly ''A London Cab Stand'' (1888),
focussing on a group of horses in a stormy scene. He composed at least three variants of this picture, and there are other instances where he made copies or near-copies of individual pictures. In the 1890s he painted pictures of soldiers, and some less well regarded genre pictures of people with animals. He also painted wild animal pictures without attempting any narrative content.
Dollman's works are in the collections of various galleries. ''The Immigrants' Ship'' (1884) is in the
Art Gallery of South Australia,
Adelaide
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. 'The Ravager' is owned by the Trustees of the
Royal Watercolour Society
The Royal Watercolour Society is a British institution of painters working in watercolours. The Society is a centre of excellence for water-based media on paper, which allows for a diverse and interesting range of approaches to the medium of wa ...
, London.
A version of ''The Unknown'' is in the
Laing Art Gallery
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,
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. A ''London Cab Stand'' is in the
Museum of London
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. ''A Dog's Home, Table d'Hote'' (1879) is in the
Walker Art Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery is an art gallery in Liverpool, which houses one of the largest art collections in England outside London. It is part of the National Museums Liverpool group.
History of the Gallery
The Walker Art Gallery's collection ...
,
Liverpool
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, and ''During the Time of the Sermonses'' (1896), an odd picture of a pair of religious people approaching two golfers, is in the collection of the
Harris Museum
The Harris Museum is a Grade I-listed building in Preston, Lancashire, England. Founded by Edmund Harris in 1877, it is a local history and fine art museum.
History
In the 19th century, it became legal to raise money for libraries by local ...
,
Preston, while 'Famine' (1904) is at the
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
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. ''Ride of the Valkyries'' is located in the
Art Gallery of Western Australia
The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) is a public art gallery that is part of the Perth Cultural Centre, in Perth. It is located near the Western Australian Museum and State Library of Western Australia and is supported and managed by the ...
,
Perth
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.
His painting of Antarctic explorer
Lawrence Oates
Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates (17 March 188017 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died from hypothermia as he walked to his death, ''A Very Gallant Gentleman'', hangs in the
Cavalry Club in London.
It was commissioned by officers of the
Inniskilling Dragoons
The 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1689 as Sir Albert Cunningham's Regiment of Dragoons. One of the regiment's most notable battles was the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690. It became the ...
in 1913.
It was exhibited at the
Royal Academy in 1914. A preparatory sketch was exhibited in the
Scott Polar Research Institute,
at the University of Cambridge, and later sold by
Christie's, on behalf of a private owner, for £40,000 in 2014.
Dollman died in London on 11 December 1934, aged 83. He was the father of the noted
zoologist
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and
taxonomist
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Guy Dollman
Captain John Guy Dollman BA, FLS (4 September 1886 – 21 March 1942), known as Guy Dollman, was a British zoologist and taxonomist. Dollman's tree mouse and Dollman's vlei rat are named after him.
Life and work
Elder son of the artist John C ...
.
References
External links
Illustrations for Norse Mythology, 1909.
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19th-century English painters
English male painters
20th-century English painters
1851 births
1934 deaths
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20th-century English male artists
19th-century English male artists