William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised);London Metropolitan Archives, St Andrew Holborn, Register of baptisms, 1558 - 1623, P82/AND2/A/001/MS06667, Item 001 28 October 1646 (buried)Katherine Gibson, William Dobson, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred".National Portrait Gallery - William Dobson He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War.
William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised);London Metropolitan Archives St Andrew Holborn, Register of baptisms 1558 - 1623, P82/AND2/A/001/MS06667, Item 001 28 October 1646 (buried)Katherine Gibson, William Dobson, Oxford Online Dictionary of National Biography, 2004) was a portraitist and one of the first significant English painters, praised by his contemporary John Aubrey as "the most excellent painter that England has yet bred".National Portrait Gallery - William Dobson He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War