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Dear Judy

Re your message:

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=22I've received a request for some information on an =22obscure=22 =
Victorian
painter (American, the requestor believes).  Name is JOHN SPENCER DOMINY.

We have only the =22standard=22 art resources here--ABM, Art Index, etc. and=
 I
haven't been
able to find anything by this route.

Can anyone suggest better places to look (or even better, find something
about him ).=22

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We have a pretty wide range of biographical dictionaries of artists,
particulary British artists, and can only find references to Dominy in a
couple of places:

Wood, Christopher.  Victorian painters (Antique Collectors' Club)  which =
says:

Dominy, J.S.  fl.1865-1876
Painter of rustic subjects and coast scenes. Exhibited 5 paintings at the
Royal Academy and and 5 paintings at the Royal Society of British Artists.
Titles: 'Help by the Wayside', etc.  Lived in London and Great Yormouth, and
later moved to York, where he worked at the Government Art School.

Dominy is also mentioned in Graves, Algernon.  A dictionary of =
artists...from
1760-1893 (3rd edition, 1903)  but this source does not add anything to =
Wood.

Hope this of some use.

Best wishes

Chris Mees
Editor - design and applied arts index
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