Robert Dampier
Robert Dampier (1799–1874) was a British artist and clergyman.
Life
Dampier was born in 1799 in the village of
Hawaiian Islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"). Both the king and the queen had died from measles
during a visit to England. Robert Dampier spent 11 weeks in Hawaii painting portraits in oil paint and making pencil drawings of landscapes.
After returning to England, he studied law at
Cambridge University and was then ordained in the Church of England. He married Sophia Francis Roberts in 1828. In 1837, he became rector of Langton Matravers church.[4]
Around 1843, the couple had a daughter who was named Juliana Sophia. Robert Dampier was widowed in 1864. He remarried in 1872 and had a daughter named Frederika by his second wife. Alongside his duties as a rector he continued to sketch until his death in 1874.[2]
Collections
Major works by Robert Dampier are held by the
Honolulu, Hawaii and a National Historic Landmark
since 2008, also holds major works by Dampier.
Paintings
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Robert Dampier's oil on canvas painting 'Karaikapa, a Native of the Sandwich Islands, 1825 -
Robert Dampier's oil on canvas painting Tetuppa, a Native Female of the Sandwich Islands, 1825 -
Portrait of King Kamehameha III of Hawaii, oil on canvas painting, 1825, Honolulu Museum of Art -
Portrait of Princess Nāhiʻenaʻena of Hawaii, oil on canvas painting, 1825, Honolulu Museum of Art -
HMS Blonde, 1825 -
View of the entrance to Rio de Janeiro and Sugarloaf Mountain, 1824
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References
- ^ LDS IGI record batch # C014402
- ^ ISBN 978-0-87022-176-7.
- ^ "Deaths". The Elcclesiastical Gazette. Vol. II, no. 17. 12 November 1839. p. 91.
- ^ a b Biographical Register of Christ;s College. Cambridge University Press. 1935. p. 435.
Further reading
- Ellis, George R. and Marcia Morse, A Hawaii Treasury, Masterpieces from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Tokyo, Asahi Shimbun, 2000, 146, 222.
- Forbes, David W., Encounters with Paradise: Views of Hawaii and its People, 1778-1941, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 1992, 25–89.
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