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Person
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Dodd, Francis (1874–1949), artist
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- Francis Edgar Dodd RA (29 November 1874 – 7 March 1949)
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Description area
Dates of existence
29 November 1874 – 7 March 1949
History
A British portrait painter, landscape artist and print maker. Dodd was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister. He trained at the Glasgow School of Art. 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.