George Dawe

George Dawe ( born February 8, 1781 London, † October 15, 1829 in Kentish Town) was an English painter.

Life

Dawe was primarily a portrait painter. At the age of 13, he produced engravings of the Queens Elizabeth and Mary after paintings by John Graham. His first painting of the death of Patroclus Achilles received in 1803 the price of Royal Academy of Arts in London; This was followed in 1804 Noemi and her two daughters in 1809 a scene from Cymbeline, Andromache and the portrait of the wife of Thomas Hope. The latter made ​​the artist popular.

Once he was in the retinue of Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, traveled three years he portrayed on the Aachen Congress in 1818 several of the princes gathered there and statesmen.

Appointed by the Russian Emperor Alexander I appointed court painter, he painted in Saint Petersburg 329 portraits of Russian generals of the Patriotic War of 1812 for the Military Gallery ( Военная галерея ) in the Winter Palace of the Hermitage. His portraits gained widespread popularity in Russia, and Alexander Pushkin dedicated to him laudatory verses.

In order to restore his health, he returned in the spring of 1829 returned to England, where he died shortly afterwards.

Selections

Levin August Bennigsen

Denis Davydov

Friedrich von Lowis of Monar

Karl Wilhelm von Toll

Yakov Kulnew

Cyprian Kreutz

Alexander Ostermann - Tolstoy

Tsar Alexander I.