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William Dobson
English painter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other people with the same name, see William Dobson (disambiguation).
William Dobson (4 March 1611 (baptised);[1] 28 October 1646 (buried)[2]) 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".[3] He died relatively young and his final years were disrupted by the English Civil War.
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