Dobson, William, portrait-painter, born in London; succeeded Vandyck as king's serjeant-painter to Charles I.; painted the king and members of his family and court; supreme in his art prior to Sir Joshua Reynolds; died in poverty (1610‒1646).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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