Dobell

British  

/ dəʊˈbɛl /

noun

1. Sir William. 1899–1970, Australian portrait and landscape painter. Awarded the Archibald prize (1943) for his famous painting of Joshua Smith which resulted in a heated clash between the conservatives and the moderns and led to a lawsuit. His other works include The Cypriot (1940), The Billy Boy (1943), and Portrait of a strapper (1941)

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Example Sentences

“There is no question about it,” said its architect, Roy Herbert Dobell, of Aberdeen.

From Seattle Times

Rashid released a statement on 15 November 2021 via journalist George Dobell in The Cricketer magazine which, as Vaughan's lawyer pointed out, was "well over a year" after Rafiq's allegations were first made.

From BBC

“Surreal” is the word Reid Dobell, 27, used to describe his first indoor date in over a year, since the start of the pandemic.

From Washington Post

Byron Dobell says that his most beloved books, such as The Essays of Montaigne, have been written on so many times, in so many different periods of his life, in so many colors of ink, that they have become palimpsests.

From Slate

Their training was undertaken, at first, by Dr. C. M. Wenyon, but when his services were required elsewhere at the end of 1915, Prof. Dobell took charge of the work and for four years has devoted himself uninterruptedly to the practical study of the intestinal protozoa of man.

From Nature