DOBSON (AUSTIN, 1840-1921, poet and man of letters) FINE PORTRAIT OF DOBSON, SIGNED BY BOTH THE SITTER AND THE ARTIST, Walker Hodgson, in grey and black washes, dated 2 April [18]94, showing Dobson three-quarter-length seated on a library chair facing left with a reading stand at his right hand, size of aperture 11½ inches, framed and glazed, overall size 21 x 19 inches, provenance given on label on verso, 1894

The provenance of the portrait is by descent from the sitter's family to his grandson Christopher Austin Dobson, Chief Librarian to the House of Lords. It was exhibited at the Walker Hodgson Exhibition in London in 1984.

£1,350