David Cowan Dobson R.B.A., (1894–1980) was a leading Scottish portrait artist who first exhibited at Royal Academy when aged only nineteen and began showing at the Royal Scottish Academy four years later.[1] Dobson's works were also exhibited at the Royal Society of Arts, Royal Watercolour Society, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Cambrian Academy, Fine Art Society and at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.