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 • Sep. 14, 2023

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 • Mar. 2, 2023

Finally, managing editor Byron Dobell told him to write up his notes as a memo, which the editors would shape into a story.

From Washington Post • May 15, 2018

“There is this about Tom,” Mr. Dobell, Mr. Wolfe’s editor at Esquire, told the London newspaper The Independent in 1998.

From New York Times • May 15, 2018

The present generation, which has been unjust to Dobell, has dealt still more hardly with Alexander Smith.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh