Robert Hawker Dowling b. 4 July 1827

Also known as Robert Dowling
  • Artist (Painter)
With subjects ranging from Aboriginal to Bibical and orientalist scenes, Dowling was the first to establish the pattern of expatriate exploitation of home patronage, which became such a marked aspect of subsequent Australian art history.
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  • Royal Anthropological Institute, London
  • British Museum, London
  • Art Gallery of South Australia, South Australia
  • Northern Region Library, State Library of Tasmania, Launceston
  • Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston
  • Van Diemen's Land Folk Museum, Battery Point, Hobart
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart
  • Warrnambool Art Gallery
  • City of Ballaarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria
  • Joseph Brown Collection, Melbourne, Victoria
  • Supreme Court Library, Melbourne, Victoria
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
  • National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra
  • National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
  • University of Queensland
  • Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

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  • Rev. Henry Dowling (creator of)
  • Mrs Charles Buckland (creator of)
  • Mr Charles Buckland (creator of)
  • Elizabeth Fleming (creator of)
  • Mr William Field (creator of)
  • Mrs William Field (creator of)
  • Maria Dowling (creator of)
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  • Captain Frederick Edmund Chalmers (creator of)
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  • Rev. Henry Dowling (creator of)
  • Rev. Henry Dowling (creator of)
  • Mrs Hannah Dowling (creator of)
  • To the Opera (creator of)
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  • George William Evans (creator of)
  • Portrait of Mary Drysdale (creator of)
  • Sir Redmond Barry (creator of)
  • Sir Henry Loch, Governor of Victoria (creator of)
  • James Smith (creator of)
  • A Sheikh and His Son Entering Cairo, on Their Return from a Pilgrimage to Mecca (creator of)
  • The Consultation (creator of)
  • The Baptism of Christ (creator of)
  • Miriam (creator of)
  • Grandfather's Visit (creator of)
  • The Presentation in the Temple (creator of)
  • Self-portrait (creator of)
  • Group of Natives of Tasmania (creator of)
  • Raising of Lazarus (creator of)
  • Mrs. Adolphus Sceales with Black Jimmie on Merrang Station (creator of)
  • A Native Group (creator of)
  • Masters George, William and Miss Harriet Ware with an Aboriginal Servant (creator of)
  • A Group of Natives of Spring Creek (creator of)
  • Minjah in the Old Time (creator of)
  • Mrs Charles Kernot (creator of)
  • Mr Charles Kernot (creator of)
  • Right Rev. Charles Perry (creator of)
  • Mrs Charles Buckland (creator of)
  • Mr Charles Buckland (creator of)
  • Elizabeth Fleming (creator of)
  • Mr William Field (creator of)
  • Mrs William Field (creator of)
  • Henry Fleming (creator of)
  • Early Effort - Art in Australia (creator of)
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  • Colonial and Indian Exhibition (None)
  • Exhibitio of oil paintings by Robert Dowling (exhibited at)
  • Victorians' Jubilee Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Launceston Mechanics Institute exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Geelong Mechanics Institute Exhibition (None)
  • Launceston Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Exhibitio of oil paintings by Robert Dowling (exhibited at)
  • Victorians' Jubilee Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Launceston Mechanics Institute exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Launceston Exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Colonial and Indian Exhibition (None)
  • Geelong Mechanics Institute Exhibition (None)