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DODD. Robert, marine painter. He lived, early in life, at Wapping Wall, and beginning art as a landscape painter when only 23 years of age, had produced some good works. He then commenced marine subjects, storms, sea-fights, and in these he attained much excellence. In 1781 he painted ' Admiral Parker's Naval Victory ; ' m 1782, * The Jamaica Fleet and Convoy in the Great Storm ; ' in 1786, « The Loss of the " Centaur," ' followed by, ' The Action between the English ship " St. Margaret " and French "Amazon/" 'The English Frigate "La Magicienne" encountering two French Frigates/ 'Rodney's Naval Victory;' in 1796, on an immense canvas, 'The British Fleet at Spithead setting under sail to escape the Ship-of-tne-line " Boyle/' ' which had caught fire ; and in 1806, ' The Commencement of the Battle of Trafalgar.' Between 1782 and 1788 he was a constant exhibitor of naval subjects at the Royal Academy, and occasionally up to 1809, when his name cannot be traced farther. His storms at sea were highly impressive. His works had great truth and reality, and were extensively engraved and very popular. A view of the Royal Dockyard, Woolwich, in 1789, was both painted and engraved by his hand.

DODD, Daniel, miniature and subject painter. Practised in the last half of the 18th century. He was an influential member of the Free Society of Artists in 1763, and a contributor of oil and crayon portraits to their exhibitions. For several years his works were of a small size. He painted ' The Royal Procession to St. Paul's/ a com-

Eosition crowded with figures ; and there is y him a good ' Representation of the Royal Academy. Somerset House/ the figures well drawn, which is engraved by Angus. His portraits of Leveridge, the actor, and of Buckhorse, a noted boxer, are also en- graved. He also designed many of the illustrations for Harrison's Novelists, and for some other works.

DODWELL, Edward, topographical draftsman. Travelled in Greece in 1801 and 1805, and made drawings of some of the most memorable places. He published, in 1811, a classical and topographical ' Tour in Greece/ and in 1819 a larger work on the same subject, illustrated by 30 views from his own drawings, which, though careful and not badly drawn, cannot lay claim to much art merit.

DOLLE, William, engraver. Born in England about 1600. He engraved chiefly portraits for the booksellers. They are in a weak, stiff manner, and most probably from his own designs. Among such portraits are Sir Henry Wootton, George Villars, Duke of Buckingham, and Robert, Earl of Essex.

DONALDSON, Andrew, water-colour painter. Born at Comber, near Belfast. 128

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His father was an operative weaver, and brought him in childhood to Glasgow. Here he was employed in a manufactory as a piecer. but meeting with an accident, which caused a weak state of health, he was ap- prenticed to a haberdasher, and seized opportunities for developing a love of art bv sketching the picturesque buildings by which he was surrounded m the old city. He then found employment as a teacher of drawing and improvement in sketching the scenery of the neighbouring country, and eventually took high rank among the Scot- tish landscape painters in water-colours. He afterwards studied in the most pictur- esque parts of Great Britain and Ireland, where ne found subjects for his pencil. He died at Glasgow, August 21, 1846.

DONALDSON. John, miniature paint- er. Born in Edinburgh in 1737, where his father was a glover, and but in narrow cir- cumstances. He was fond of drawing as a child, and while yet very young supported himself by miniature portraits in Indian ink. After some years ne came to London, where he gained a premium at the Society of Arts in 1764, and again in 1768, when he was living at Edinburgh, for an histo- rical painting of Hero and Leander. In 1764 he was a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, and had tolerable suc- cess as a portrait painter. He also painted some vases sent to him in London from the Worcester china works, and his art in china is well-known and prized by collectors. But he had imbibed notions that the world was going wrong in religion, morals, and poli- tics, and in his abstraction he wandered aside, dreaming that he could set all things right. His friends fell off, he lost his faculty of execution, and then became dis- gusted with his art. He etched some small Elates of beggars in the manner of Rem- randt; but withal he wanted persever- ance, was of unsettled habits, and tried many schemes. He cultivated chemistry, and patented a mode of preserving vege- tables and meat. He published a volume of Poems in 1786, which are not without some merit; and an ' Essay on the Ele- ments of Beauty/ 1780. Yet, notwith- standing his many endowments, the last 20 years of his life were full of suffering, and ne was sometimes without necessaries. At last, however, some friends made such pro- vision as jpreserved him from destitution. He died October 11, 1801, and was buried in Islington Churchyard.

DO NO WELL, John, architectural draftsman. He was a member of the In- corporated Society of Artists in 1776. He exhibited views and designs in the Academy 1778-86. He built Lord Le de Spencert house at Wycombe, the designs for which were printed in Wolfe and Gandon's work. His elevation is but mean and poor. Several