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Robert Dampier (1799–1874) was a British artist and clergyman.
Image:Robert_Dampier's_oil_on_canvas_painting_'Karaikapa,_a_Native_of_the_Sandwich_Islands',_1825.jpg, Robert Dampier's oil on canvas painting '' 'Karaikapa, a Native of the Sandwich Islands'', 1825
Image:Robert_Dampier's_oil_on_canvas_painting_'Tetuppa,_a_Native_Female_of_the_Sandwich_Islands',_1825.jpg, Robert Dampier's oil on canvas painting ''Tetuppa, a Native Female of the Sandwich Islands'', 1825
File:Robert Dampier (1800-1874) - Kamehameha III, 1825.jpg, Portrait of King
Robert Dampier (1799–1874) was a British artist and clergyman.
Life
Dampier was born in 1799 in the village of Codford St Peter in Wiltshire, England. He was baptised on 20 December 1799. He was one of 13 children of Codford St Peter's rector Reverend John Dampier (1763–1839) and his wife Jane. In 1819, he went to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil as a clerk. In 1825, he was picked up in Rio to be the expedition artist on the English ship , under the command of Captain George Anson Byron. The ship was returning the bodies of KingKamehameha II
Kamehameha II (November 1797 – July 14, 1824) was the second king of the Kingdom of Hawaii. His birth name was Liholiho and full name was Kalaninui kua Liholiho i ke kapu ʻIolani. It was lengthened to Kalani Kaleiʻaimoku o Kaiwikapu o Laʻa ...
and Queen Kamāmalu
Kamāmalu Kalani-Kuaʻana-o-Kamehamalu-Kekūāiwa-o-kalani-Kealiʻi-Hoʻopili-a-Walu (–1824) was Queen consort of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi as the wife of King Kamehameha II. Kamāmalu was short for Kamehamalu or Kamehamehamalu meaning "the Shade ...
to the Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands ( haw, Nā Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, and numerous smaller islets in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaii in the south to northernmost Kur ...
(known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"). Both the king and the queen had died from measles
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during a visit to England. Robert Dampier spent 11 weeks in Hawaii painting portraits in oil paint and making pencil drawings of landscapes.
After returning to England, he studied law at Cambridge University and was then ordained in the Church of England.
He married Sophia Francis Roberts in 1828. In 1837, he became rector
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*Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations
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of Langton Matravers
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church.
Around 1843, the couple had a daughter who was named Juliana Sophia. Robert Dampier was widowed in 1864. He remarried in 1872 and had a daughter named Frederika by his second wife. Alongside his duties as a rector he continued to sketch until his death in 1874.
Collections
Major works by Robert Dampier are held by the Honolulu Museum of Art. The historic site Washington Place, also in Honolulu, Hawaii and a National Historic Landmark since 2008, also holds major works by Dampier.Paintings
Kamehameha III
Kamehameha III (born Kauikeaouli) (March 17, 1814 – December 15, 1854) was the third king of the Kingdom of Hawaii from 1825 to 1854. His full Hawaiian name is Keaweaweula Kīwalaō Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa and then lengthened to Keaweaweula K ...
of Hawaii, oil on canvas painting, 1825, Honolulu Museum of Art
File:Robert_Dampier_(1800–1874),_Nahiennaena_(1825).jpg, Portrait of Princess Nahiennaena of Hawaii, oil on canvas painting, 1825, Honolulu Museum of Art
File:'The H. M. S. Blonde', by Robert Dampier, 1825, Washington Place.jpg, HMS ''Blonde'', 1825
File:Robert Dampier - Vista da entrada da barra do Rio de Janeiro e Igreja da Glória do Outeiro.JPG, View of the entrance to Rio de Janeiro and Sugarloaf Mountain, 1824
References
Further reading
* Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, ''A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts'', Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 146, 222. * Forbes, David W., ''Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941'', Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 25-89. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dampier, Robert 1799 births 1874 deaths People from Wiltshire 19th-century British painters British male painters Hawaii artists 19th-century British male artists