Henry Lamb, R.A.

J. S. Maas & Co., London, where bought by Sir David Scott, 25 May 1965  for £25.4.0.

London, J. S. Maas & Co., Pre-Raphaelites to Post Impressionists, 1965, no. 57

STRUCTURE The work is on wove paper and is not laid down. The sheet is attached to the mount in each corner with a piece of tape. The edges of the sheet are slightly dirty although this is disguised by the mount. The sheet has been lightly stained. There are very minor scattered creases in the corners of the sheet. SURFACE The surface of the sheet is in good overall condition. FRAME Held under glass and presented within a cream mount in a simple gilded rectilinear frame.
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Francis Dodd was born in Holyhead in Wales in 1874, but later moved to Glasgow, where he trained as a painter at the Glasgow School of Art. Dodd's training received fresh inspiration from a tour through France, Italy and Spain in 1893. The following year, he began to exhibit at the New English Art Club, of which he became a member in 1904.

In 1895 Dodd settled in Manchester, but moved to London in 1904. He was employed as an Official War Artist in the First World War, during which he served on the Western Front and used his talent as a portrait painter to record the likenesses of senior military figures. Dodd became a curator at the Tate Gallery in 1928 until 1935 when he was elected a Royal Academician.