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John Charles Dollman
British artist (1851–1934)
John Charles DollmanRWSRIROI (6 May 1851 – 11 December 1934) was an English painter and illustrator.
Dollman studied art at both South Kensington and the Royal Academy Schools and soon gained a reputation as an animal painter and many at the.
Life
Dollman was born in Hove on 6 May 1851 and moved to London to study at South Kensington and the Royal Academy Schools, after which he set up a studio at Bedford Park, London, designed for him by Maurice Bingham Adams.[1] He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1870 to 1912, and was elected RWS (Member of the Royal Watercolour Society) in 1913.
Dollman was also an illustrator, working in black and white or colour for magazines such as The Graphic during and after the 1880s. Some of his early work has been said to have influenced Van Gogh.[2][3]
Works
A central theme was ambitious mythological pictures such as a Viking Foray, a Viking horde entitled the Ravager, The Unknown (1912), featuring a girl surrounded by chimps and Orpheus and his Lute with Lions.
He also produced