Fair Wind “Dumbarton Rock” by Montague Dawson

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Giclee prints on canvas or paper of Fair Wind “Dumbarton Rock” by Montague Dawson.

Montague Dawson was the son of a keen yachtsman and the grandson of the marine painter Henry Dawson (1811–1878), born in Cheswick, London. Much of his childhood was spent on Southampton Water where he was able to indulge his interest in the study of ships. For a brief period around 1910 Dawson worked for a commercial art studio in Bedford Row, London, but with the outbreak of the First World War he joined the Royal Navy. Whilst serving with the Navy in Falmouth he met Charles Napier Hemy (1841–1917), who considerably influenced his work. In 1924 Dawson was the official artist for an Expedition to the South Seas by the steam yacht St.George. During the expedition he provided illustrated reports to the Graphic magazine.