About Henry Dawe
Lived 1790 – 1848 (aged 57–58). Henry Dawe was a British painter and engraver.
Henry Edward Dawe (1790–1848) was an English engraver and subject painter, the brother of the artist George Dawe.
Life Dawe was born at Kentish Town, near London, in 1790. He was taught by his father, Philip Dawe, the engraver, and he also studied in the schools of the Royal Academy. He assisted Turner on his Liber Studiorum, and mezzotinted many of his brother's portraits. As a painter, he exhibited at the Society of British Artists, of which he was elected a member in 1830. He died at Windsor in 1848.
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Who was Henry Dawe?
British artist (1790-1848)
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Henry Dawe was born in 1790 in Kentish Town.
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Henry Dawe died on 28 December 1848 in Windsor.
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Henry Dawe was a painter and engraver.
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Henry Dawe was British.
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