Title of Product:

Collection Tate: William Dobson

Image of the product:

Name of Author(s): Tate Gallery

Name of Producer: Tate Gallery

Language/s of Product: English

Website of the product: www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=153&page=1

Target Group: General public, teachers, students 11+

Overall Evaluation: excellent

Availability of community:
Forum

Objectives & Structure:
The site looks at 3 works by William Dobson and then has clickable sections to access more detail about the painting or sitter.
Each work is illustrated and viewers are able to enlarge to a good resolution
The text is a limited introduction to the works, but see also the link to Tate’s ‘Previous Exhibitions’.

Description of contents:
The site has an excellent and scholarly biography of Dobson with a thorough bibliography.
The 3 pictures shown are:
• Portrait of the Artist’s Wife
• Endymion Porter
• Portrait of an Officer
• Each picture can be interrogated in terms of an explanatory text; an enlarged image of the work; a list of subjects and links associated with that particular picture.

Evaluation and Comments:

Description of how the website can be used with the students::
Students, either individually or as a group, could explore this site as an introduction to the artist and some of his work.
The detailed biography might need paraphrasing for younger students.

Comments::
A good site for teachers or students to begin a study into William Dobson and to establish his position in early Stuart painting.

Evaluation Date: 30.06.08

Name of teacher: Andy Mortimer

Name of School: Project Developer

Country: UK

Subjects Taught: Art