Artist

John Dobbin

Portrait of John Dobbin

English

John Dobbin is an English Realism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

John Dobbin was an English landscape painter, the son of John and Elizabeth who lived in Weaver's Yard. John, the son, did not follow the same trade as his father, who was a weaver working in Pease's Mill in Darlington town centre, but was apprenticed instead to a cabinet-maker in Grange Road. He was not happy with this choice of career and in his twenties left for London to become an artist.

Collections represented

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