Francis Dodd (artist)

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Francis Edgar Dodd
Born	(1874-11-29)29 November 1874 Holyhead, Wales
Died	7 March 1949(1949-03-07) (aged 74) Blackheath, London
Spouse	Mary Arabella Brouncker Ingle (died 1948), Ellen Margaret Tanner
Nationality	British
Field	painting, printmaking
Training	Glasgow School of Art
Elected	The Royal Academy of Arts, 1935

Portrait of Reginald Tyrwhitt by Dodd, from 'Admirals of the British Navy' published 1917^[1]

Francis Edgar Dodd RA (29 November 1874 – 7 March 1949) was a British portrait and landscape artist and printmaker.

Born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister, Dodd trained at the Glasgow School of Art, winning the Haldane Scholarship in 1893 and travelling around France, Italy and later Spain. He settled in Manchester (1895–1905), becoming friends with Charles Holden, before moving to London.

During World War I, in 1916, he was appointed an official war artist by Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda Bureau (WPB). Serving on the Western Front,^[2] he produced more than 30 portraits of senior military figures.

However, he also earned a considerable peace-time reputation for the quality of his watercolours and portrait commissions. He was appointed a trustee of the Tate Gallery in 1929, a position he held for the next six years, and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1927 and a Member in 1935.^[3]

He lived from 1911 until taking his own life in 1949 in Arundel House (51 Blackheath Park) in Blackheath, London SE3.

References

Reade, Brian; rev. Ian Lowe (2004). "Dodd, Francis Edgar (1874–1949)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32847. Retrieved 3 May 2013. Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)

↑ Francis Dodd (1917). Admirals of the British Navy. London: Country Life and George Newnes Ltd.
↑ Mallalieu, Huon (19 January 1991). "Home-front battle of the war artists". The Times. p. 17. Retrieved 3 May 2013.
↑ "Mr. Francis Dodd". The Times. 10 March 1949. p. 7. Retrieved 3 May 2013.

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Persondata
Name	Dodd, Francis
Alternative names
Short description	British artist
Date of birth	29 November 1874
Place of birth	Holyhead, North Wales, United Kingdom
Date of death	7 March 1949
Place of death	Blackheath, London, England, United Kingdom

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