William Charles Thomas Dobson

William Charles Thomas Dobson RA RWS (1817 – 30 January 1898) was an English painter.

[1] Through Eastlake's influence Dobson obtained a post in the government school of design established in the old Royal Academy rooms at Somerset House.

In 1843 he became head-master of the government school of design in Birmingham, resigning in 1845, and went to Italy, where he spent most of his time at Rome.

He painted numerous scriptural subjects, at first in oils, later in water-colours also, which caught the vogue for sentimentality, and were popularised by engraving.

[1] As a watercolourist Dobson resisted innovation, by artists such as Frederick Walker, and George John Pinwell who used bodycolour.