John Charles Dollman - Mowgli made leader of the Bandar Log

John Charles Dollman RWS RI ROI (6 May 1851 – 11 December 1934) was an English painter and illustrator.

Life

Dollman was born in

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on 6 May 1851 and moved to London to study at

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and the

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, after which he set up a studio at

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, designed for him by

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. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1870 to 1912, and was elected RWS (Member of the

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) in 1913. Dollman was also an illustrator, working in black and white or colour for magazines such as ''

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'' during and after the 1880s. Some of his early work has been said to have influenced

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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 bold compositions of animals and people such as ''Robinson Crusoe and His Man Friday'', ''Polo'' and ''Mowgli made leader of the Bandar-log'' (1903). His best known work is possibly ''A London Cab Stand'' (1888), focussing on a group of horses in a stormy scene. He composed at least three variants of this picture, and there are other instances where he made copies or near-copies of individual pictures. In the 1890s he painted pictures of soldiers, and some less well regarded genre pictures of people with animals. He also painted wild animal pictures without attempting any narrative content. Dollman's works are in the collections of various galleries. ''The Immigrants' Ship'' (1884) is in the Art Gallery of South Australia,

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. 'The Ravager' is owned by the Trustees of the

, London. A version of ''The Unknown'' is in the

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. A ''London Cab Stand'' is in the

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. ''A Dog's Home, Table d'Hote'' (1879) is in the

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, and ''During the Time of the Sermonses'' (1896), an odd picture of a pair of religious people approaching two golfers, is in the collection of the

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, Preston, while 'Famine' (1904) is at the

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. ''Ride of the Valkyries'' is located in the

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A Very Gallant Gentleman (Gallimard version) - John Charles Dollman - 1913

His painting of Antarctic explorer

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as he walked to his death, ''A Very Gallant Gentleman'', hangs in the Cavalry Club in London. It was commissioned by officers of the

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in 1913. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1914. A preparatory sketch was exhibited in the Scott Polar Research Institute, at the University of Cambridge, and later sold by Christie's, on behalf of a private owner, for £40,000 in 2014. Dollman died in London on 11 December 1934, aged 83. He was the father of the noted

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and

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Guy Dollman Captain John Guy Dollman BA, FLS (4 September 1886 – 21 March 1942), known as Guy Dollman, was a British zoologist and taxonomist. Dollman's tree mouse and Dollman's vlei rat are named after him. Life and work Elder son of the artist John C ...

References

External links

Illustrations for Norse Mythology, 1909.
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