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Henry Raeburn Dobson (May 29, 1901 - May 22, 1985〔Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages, General Register Office, Edinburgh, Deaths of 1985, District N° 746, entry N° 386〕) - also known as Raeburn Dobson - was a Scottish portrait and landscape painter from Edinburgh who was active in Edinburgh and Brussels (Belgium) from 1918/1920 until 1980. His father Henry John Dobson (1858–1928) and his brother Cowan Dobson (1894–1980) were genre and portrait painters. His portraits are mainly painted in oil, while his landscape paintings are mainly painted in watercolour. ==Family== Henry Raeburn Dobson, who was to become a fine society portrait painter, was born into middle-class family with roots in Kirkcudbright, Scotland. His father, Henry John Dobson (1858–1928)10,〔David Devereux, Niall Duncan, Glenken's History: a Dalry artist Henry John Dobson 1858–1928, in ''The Glenkens Gazette'', s.d.,p.11. Christopher Newall, Margaret Richardson, ''Dictionary of British Art'': Victorian Painters, Christopher Wood, Woodbridge,Suffolk, England, 1998, Vol. IV, 1. The Text, p.142, col 1. J. Johnson, A. Greutzner, ''Dictionary of British Art'': British Artists 1880-1940, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, 1999R, 149, col. 3.〕 was himself a Scottish genre and portrait painter from Dalry. His grandfather, Thomas Dobson, was a wool merchant〔Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages, General Register Office, Edinburgh, Deaths of 1928, p. 152, entry 454.〕 in the town of Kirkcudbright. It is said in the family that there was a Dobson wool mill in Dalry. Perhaps this mill was owned and run by Thomas. Henry John did not maintain the family tradition of running the family wool business. In order to become a painter he sacrificed his inheritance since family legend has it that Thomas Dobson disowned his son. Henry John's whole life would be marked by financial difficulties. Henry John married Jeannie Charlotte Hannah Cowan on September 17, 1890 in Dalry, in the district of Kirkcudbright.〔Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages, General Register Office, Edinburgh, Marriages of 1890,p.3, entry 5〕 To exercise his art (and because there were more opportunities for paintings portraits in the Scottish capital) they later moved to a house in Edinburgh. Raeburn was born there at 9, Merchiston Crescent〔In some reference books, Henry John is stated to live at 5, Merchiston Place !〕 in a house that is stated to have had at least " ''7 rooms with one or more windows''".〔Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages, General Register Office, Edinburgh, Census of 1901, p.3, Civil Parish of Edinburgh, Burgh Ward of Merchiston〕 At that time, the family had an in-house servant, Barbara Sutherland.〔 As a portrait painter, Henry John did not have much success. He transitioned into Scottish genre paintings in the style of Thomas Faed (1826–1900), Henry Wright Kerr (1857–1936) and David Wilkie (1785–1841). These scenes were especially popular in the United States and Canada, where they were often printed on tin biscuit boxes. Because Henry John often had difficulties paying the rent, the family moved quite often. It is said that he actually lived from hand to mouth and that it was mainly due to the household skills of his wife Jeannie that the family survived. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Raeburn Dobson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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