Francis Dodd (29 November 1874 - 7 March 1949) was a notable British portrait and landscape artist and print-maker. November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in leap years). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... It has been suggested that Portrait painting be merged into this article or section. ... Photograph of a landscape A landscape comprises the visible features of an area of land, including physical elements such as landforms, living elements of flora and fauna, abstract elements such as lighting and weather conditions, and human elements, for instance human activity or the built environment. ... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Printing is an industrial process for reproducing copies of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ...

Francis T. Dodd was an American general in charge of POW camps in the Korean War, later captured and held hostage by North Korean prisoners.

Born in Holyhead, north Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister, Dodd trained at the Glasgow School of Art, winning the Haldene 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. Holyhead (Welsh: Caergybi, the fort of St. ... Motto: (Welsh for Wales for ever) Anthem: Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau Capital Cardiff Largest city Cardiff Official language(s) English, Welsh Government Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Queen Elizabeth II  - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP  - First Minister Rhodri Morgan AM Unification    - by Gruffudd ap Llywelyn 1056  Area    - Total 20,779 km² (3rd... North elevation of GSAs Mackintosh building Glasgow School of Art is one of four independent art schools in Scotland, situated in the Garnethill area of Glasgow. ... The City of Manchester is a major city and metropolitan borough in the North of England, historically notable for its central role in the Industrial Revolution. ... Charles Henry Holden (12 May 1875 - 1 May 1960) was an English architect known for his designs of stations on the London Underground railway system. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and of the United Kingdom. ...

During the First World War, 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. Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ... Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman (October 25, 1874-November 17, 1927) was a British Liberal politician and journalist. ... Western Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the contested armed frontier between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West. ...

However, he also earned a considerable peace-time reputation for the quality of his water-colours and portrait commissions. He was appointed a trustee of the Tate Gallery in 1929 and was elected to the Royal Academy in 1935. The Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom is a network of four galleries: Tate Britain (opened 1897), Tate Liverpool (1988), Tate St Ives (1993), Tate Modern (2000), with a complementary website Tate Online (1998). ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ...

He lived from 1911 until taking his own life in 1949 in Arundel House (51 Blackheath Park) in Blackheath, London SE3. Blackheath is a suburb of London, divided between the London Borough of Lewisham and the London Borough of Greenwich. ...

Sources

Brian Reade, "Dodd, Francis Edgar (1874–1949)", revised Ian Lowe, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 online version accessed 31 July 2006