He was taught by his father, Philip Dawe, the engraver, and he also studied in the schools of the Royal Academy.
He assisted Turner on his Liber Studiorum, and mezzotinted many of his brother's portraits.
As a painter, he exhibited at the Society of British Artists, of which he was elected a member in 1830.
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