Dawson Dawson-Watson

Born in London, England, Dawson Dawson-Watson was a landscape, portrait, genre, marine, and mural painter and graphics artist who was the son of a popular English illustrator.  He attended grammar school at Southsea, Hampshire.

His first art teacher was Mark Fisher, with whom he studied in Steyning, England. A wealthy local brewer then sponsored Dawson-Watson’s art training in Paris that included classes with Carolus Duran.  While in France, he also studied with Louis-Joseph Raphael Collin and Pierre Paul Leon Glaize.