Francis
Dodd was born in
Glasgow in 1874. He trained at the Glasgow
School of Art and developed a reputation as one of Britain's
leading portrait artists. .
In 1916 Charles Masterman, the head
of the War
Propaganda Bureau (WPB), recruited Dodd to replace Muirhead
Bone, as Britain's official war artist on the Western
Front. While in France he produced more than thirty portraits
of senior military officers.
In 1929 he became a Trustee of the Tate Gallery
and a RA in 1935. Francis
Dodd
died in Blackheath in 1935.
Francis Dodd,
Sir William Robertson
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