Portrait of Lt. General Sir Charles Dobell, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Com. Legion of Honour (Fr.)

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John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Portrait of Lt. General Sir Charles Dobell, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Com. Legion of Honour (Fr.)
signed 'John S Sargent' (upper centre) and dated '1919' (upper right)
oil on canvas
22 x 16 in. (55.8 x 40.6 cm.)

Provenance

The sitter, and by descent.

Literature

D. McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, Boston, 1956, pp. 92 and 97.

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Lot Essay

This portrait is a study for one of the figures in Sargent's 1920-22 oil Some General Officers of the Great War (National Portrait Gallery, London. See C. Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, New York, 1982, p. 206, pl. 307).

Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell (1869-1954), The Royal Welch Fusileers, served in field command positions in Africa and Palestine during World War One, and he was knighted and promoted to Lieutenant-General following his endeavours as commander of an Anglo-French force tasked with the capture of Cameroon. He was mentioned in dispatches nine times.

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