London
Dawson Dawson-Watson was born on July 21, 1864 in the Parish of St. Pancras in London, England.¹ Born into an artistic family, he was the son of John Dawson Watson …
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1880s Art Student: 1886-1888 Quimperle and Paris; 1888-1889 Giverny
The 1881 England Census listed Dawson-Watson as an “art student.” During the early 1880s, he assisted his father with various commissions, learned watercolor techniques from his uncle, Thomas J. Watson …
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1893-1897 New England: Boston and Scituate, Massachusetts; Hartford and Farmington, Connecticut; 1898-1901 Wales and England
1893 – While in Giverny, the painter James Carroll Beckwith (1852–1917) convinced Dawson-Watson to move to America. In May 1893, the Dawson-Watsons left Liverpool, England, and set sail for New …
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1901-1903 Québec City
1901 – On the recommendation of a old friend from Hartford, Dawson-Watson decided to leave England for Québec, Canada. In May of 1901, he and his family sailed from Liverpool, …
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1903 Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony, Woodstock, New York
1903 – Dawson-Watson was motivated to leave Québec after learning from the painter, Birge Harrison, about a new arts and crafts colony in Woodstock, New York. Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead (1854-1929) …
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