his exhibited paintings were: ‘The Coronation of George IV’ (British Institution, 1828), portrait of Miss Phillips as Juliet (Royal Academy, 1829), portrait of William IV (British Artists, 1832), ‘Lear and Cordelia’ (1834), ‘Christmas Fare’ (1835), ‘Wreck of the George the Fourth, Convict Ship’ (1836), ‘The Miser alarmed’ (1838), ‘Fisher-boys on the Sussex Coast’ (1839), ‘Burns and Highland Mary’ and a portrait of Prince Albert (1840), ‘Blind Man's Buff’ and ‘The Orphan's Friend’ (1842), ‘John Anderson my Jo,’ ‘The Philanthropist,’ and ‘The Detected’ (1844), ‘The Holiday, or Granny in a Rage’ (1845), and several other portraits and subject pictures. Some of his works were engraved and became popular. His own plates in mezzotint were successful, and included ‘Christ's Agony in the Garden,’ after Giovanni Bolognese; ‘The Fortune-Tellers,’ after Sir Joshua Reynolds; ‘St. Genoveva,’ after Cattermole; ‘The Gipsy,’ after Sir David Wilkie; ‘The Bee's Wing,’ after M. W. Sharp; ‘The Disbanded Soldier,’ after H. J. Richter; ‘The Escape of Mary Queen of Scots, from Loch Leven Castle,’ after H. J. Fradelle; ‘Sir Arthur, his Daughter, and the Beggar,’ after Camille Roqueplan; and portraits of Mrs. Siddons as the ‘Tragic Muse,’ after Sir Joshua Reynolds; John Kemble as ‘Hamlet,’ after Sir Thomas Lawrence; Lord Eldon, after C. Penny; Horatio, seventh earl of Orford, and Dr. George Birkbeck, after R. J. Lane; William IV, both as Duke of Clarence and as king, after his own paintings, and a large number of Russian officers, after the works of his brother. Dawe was one of the engravers employed by Turner upon the ‘Liber Studiorum,’ after his rupture with Charles Turner; the four plates which he engraved for this work being ‘Rivaulx Abbey,’ ‘Mill near the Grande Chartreuse,’ ‘Twickenham—Pope's Villa,’ and ‘Bonneville, Savoy.’ He resided for many years in Bartholomew Place, Kentish Town, but about 1842 he removed to Windsor, where he died 28 Dec. 1848.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists of the English School, 1878; Rawlinson's Turner's Liber Studiorum, 1878; Catalogues of the Exhibitions of the Royal Academy, British Institution (Living Artists), and Society of British Artists, 1824–45.]
DAWE, PHILIP (fl. 1780), mezzotint engraver, son of a city merchant, was articled to Henry Robert Morland. Thus he became the companion and friend of George Morland, the more famous son of that artist, but he did not, as Redgrave states, ‘write his life.’ Morland's life was written by Philip's son, George Dawe [q. v.], and published in 1807. About 1760 he worked, it is said, under Hogarth, and at that same time unsuccessfully competed at the Society of Arts for the best historical painting. In 1761 he exhibited some humorous subjects at the Society of Artists, and contributed to the first exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1763. He painted ‘The Cavern Scene in Macbeth,’ ‘Captain Bobadil Cudgelled,’ and ‘The Drunkard reproving his Disorderly Family.’ Redgrave states that he engraved plates after Reynolds. There are also mezzotints by him after his master, Henry Morland, and after Gainsborough and Romney. He is commonly stated to have died about 1780. There are, however, letters to him from George Morland dated as late as October 1785.
[Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; George Dawe's Life of George Morland, 1807; Arnold's Library of the Fine Arts, i. 17–19, contains an account of George Dawe, with a reference to his father.]
DAWES, LANCELOT, D.D. (1580–1653), divine, was born at Barton Kirk in Westmoreland of poor parents. When seventeen he became a student of Queen's College, Oxford, and a few months later became a servitor. He took the degree of B.A. in 1602, and was then made tabarder, and in 1605 proceeded to his M.A. degree, became a fellow, and subsequently took orders. He continued to reside in the college, of which his studious retired life and simple habits had caused him to be considered an ornament, till, in 1608, he was preferred to the living of Barton Kirk, his birthplace, by John Featherston, whose right, however, being challenged, another clergyman was presented, and a long dispute took place, which ended in favour of Dawes, who held the living till his death. In the year 1619 he was preferred to a prebendal stall in Carlisle Cathedral, ‘to the general liking of all the knowing and pious divines in his diocese, with whom, for a comprehensive and orthodox judgment, adorned with all variety of learning, he was ever held in just estimation.’ In 1618 he had obtained the living of Ashby in Westmoreland, and was instituted on the king's presentation. A charge of simony was brought against him, which not being held proven, a mandate was issued to the archdeacon to induct him. About this time the university of St. Andrews conferred the degree of D.D. upon him. During the civil war Dawes submitted to the party in authority, but took no active part on either side. He is said to have built the greater part of the parsonage at Ashby. He died in February 1653–4, and was buried under the communion table in Barton church. His ‘Sermons preached on several occasions,’ in
