Frank Owen Dobson
(1886-1963), SculptorSitter in 18 portraits
Artist of 8 portraits
The son of an artist, Dobson trained at the Leyton School of Art and was apprenticed to the sculptor Sir William Reynolds-Stephens. His first solo show in 1914 at the Chenil Galleries was of paintings and drawings. He enlisted into the Artists' Rifles in World War I. In 1920 he exhibited alongside Wyndham Lewis with 'Group X' and had his first solo sculpture show at the Leicester Galleries in 1921. He was an Official War artist during World War II and Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art from 1946-1953.
E.Q. Nicholson; Eveleen ('Eve') Clarke (née Myers)
by Frank Owen Dobson
pencil and watercolour, 1919
NPG 6314
Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
by Frank Owen Dobson
pencil, 1920
NPG 4387
by Frank Owen Dobson
plaster cast of head, 1922
NPG 6320
by Frank Owen Dobson
bronze bust, circa 1930-1931
On display in the Entrance Hall on Floor 0 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6366
by Frank Owen Dobson
bronze bust, 1930
NPG 7014
Margaret Rawlings (Lady Barlow)
by Frank Owen Dobson
plaster bust, 1936
NPG 6950
Margaret Rawlings (Lady Barlow)
by Frank Owen Dobson
pencil on paper, circa 1936
NPG D42715
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