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Robert Dampier Portrait of Princess Nahiennaena of Hawaii oil painting


Portrait of Princess Nahiennaena of Hawaii
Painting ID::  81987 		Artist: Robert Dampier
Painting: Portrait of Princess Nahiennaena of Hawaii
Introduction: Date 1825(1825) Medium Oil on canvas cjr
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Robert Dampier Portrait of King Kamehameha III of Hawaii oil painting


Portrait of King Kamehameha III of Hawaii
Painting ID::  86323 		Artist: Robert Dampier
Painting: Portrait of King Kamehameha III of Hawaii
Introduction: 1825(1825) Medium Oil on canvas cyf
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Robert Dampier 'Karaikapa, a Native of the Sandwich Islands' oil painting


'Karaikapa, a Native of the Sandwich Islands'
Painting ID::  92624 		Artist: Robert Dampier
Painting: 'Karaikapa, a Native of the Sandwich Islands'
Introduction: Date 1825(1825) Source Washington Place, Honolulu TTD
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
Robert Dampier 'Tetuppa, a Native Female of the Sandwich Islands' oil painting


'Tetuppa, a Native Female of the Sandwich Islands'
Painting ID::  92625 		Artist: Robert Dampier
Painting: 'Tetuppa, a Native Female of the Sandwich Islands'
Introduction: Date 1825(1825) Medium oil on canvas TTD
   
   
     

 

 

 
 

 

 

 
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     (1799 - 1874) was a British artist and clergyman. Dampier was born in 1799 at the village of Codford St Peter in Wiltshire, England He was baptised on the 20th of Dec. 1799 (LDS IGI record batch # C014402). He was one of 13 children of Codford St Peter's rector Reverend John Dampier (1763-1839) and his wife Jane. In 1819 he went to Rio de Janeiro in Brazil as a clerk. In 1825, he was picked up in Rio to be the expedition artist on the English ship HMS Blonde under the command of Captain George Anson Byron. The ship was returning the bodies of King Kamehameha II and Queen Kamemalu to the Hawaiian islands (known by the British as "Sandwich Islands"), after both 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 then was ordained in the Church of England. He married Sophia Francis Roberts in 1828. In 1837 he became rector of Langton Matravers church. Circa 1843 they had a daughter Juliana Sophia, His wife Sophia died in 1864, and he married again in 1872. He had a daughter Frederika from the second marriage. Although employed a rector, he continued to sketch until his death in 1874. Major works by Robert Dampier are held by the Honolulu Academy of Arts and Washington Place, also in Honolulu, Hawaii. . Related Artists to Robert Dampier : | Bonifacio de Pitati | Francesco Rustici | William Dyce | Abbey, Edwin Austin | CLERCK, Hendrik de |

 

 

 
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