A portrait of Arthur Lionel Smith (1850-1924), a British historian at the University of Oxford and Master of Balliol College, Oxford from 1916 to 1924. Dodd made two plates portraying Arthur Lionel Smith in 1915, this being the second. This is a reversed design either after the oil painting of Arthur Smith which Dodd completed in 1913, or a study for the painting. Two copies of the etching can be seen in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Inscribed with the sitter's initials in plate to the upper-left edge and signed and dated in plate to the upper-right edge. Also signed in graphite to the lower-right edge.
There is some foxing to the substrate and some small creases and marks around the edges. Indistinct inscription and dimensions inscribed in graphite to the lower-right edge of the substrate.
23.2 x 16.7cm (9.1" x 6.6")Sheet: 40.9 x 29.4cm (16.1" x 11.6")
Francis Edgar Dodd RA (1874-1949) was a British portrait painter, landscape artist, and printmaker. Dodd was born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister. He trained at the Glasgow School of Art alongside Muirhead Bone, who married Dodd's sister Gertrude Helena Dodd. 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 peacetime 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 six years, and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1927 and a full Member in 1935. From 1911 Dodd lived at Arundel House (51 Blackheath Park) in Blackheath, London SE3, until he took his own life in 1949.
| SKU | qs554 |
|---|---|
| Artist | Francis E. Dodd RA (1874-1949) |
| Date | 1915 |
| Dimensions | 23.2 x 16.7cm |
| Medium | Etching |
| Subject | Portrait |
| Item Returns | This item can be returned |
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