Francis Dodd (artist)

For the American general, see Francis Dodd (general).

Francis Edgar Dodd
Born	(1874-11-29)29 November 1874 Holyhead, Wales
Died	Blackheath, London
Nationality	British
Education	Glasgow School of Art
Known for	painting, printmaking
Spouse(s)	Mary Arabella Brouncker Ingle (died 1948), Ellen Margaret Tanner
Elected	The Royal Academy of Arts, 1935

Portrait of Reginald Tyrwhitt by Dodd, from 'Admirals of the British Navy' published 1917

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

Born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister, Dodd trained at the Glasgow School of Art alongside Muirhead Bone who married Dodd's sister. At Glasgow, Dodd won the Haldane Scholarship in 1893 and then travelled around France, Italy and later Spain. Dodd returned to England in 1895 and settled in Manchester, becoming friends with Charles Holden, before moving to Blackheath in London in 1904.

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, 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.

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

External links

• Works by Francis Dodd in the collections of the Imperial War Museum
• Paintings by Francis Dodd on the BBC Your Paintings website
• Portrait of Francis Dodd by Stephen Bone on the BBC Your Paintings website