Background
He was born near Christ Church in Southwark, London.
He was born near Christ Church in Southwark, London.
His teacher was Charles Heath. There he studied in the atelier of Suisse, and also attended the school of Gros, according to Thompson Cooper. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography suggests his study under Charles-Alexandre Suisse might have been later.
In 1825 he went to Paris. He acquired the techniques of drawing from the life, and passed them on to pupils in England. He took on William Duffield as a non-paying pupil, and William Thomas Roden was an apprentice.
Another pupil was Thomas Leeming Grundy.
In 1836 Doo was made Engraver in Ordinary to William IV, and later to Queen Victoria. At this period he worked for Francis Moon.
Doo became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1851. He was made a Royal Academician in 1857.
Doo died in Sutton, Surrey.
Royal Society.
