Background
Born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister, Dodd trained at the Glasgow School of Art alongside Muirhead Bone who married Dodd"s sister.
Born in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales, the son of a Wesleyan minister, Dodd trained at the Glasgow School of Art alongside Muirhead Bone who married Dodd"s sister.
Glasgow School of Artist
During World War I, in 1916, he was appointed an official war artist by Charles Masterman, the head of the War Propaganda Bureau (War Production Board). Serving on the Western Front, he produced more than 30 portraits of senior military figures. However, he also earned a considerable peace-time 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 the next six years, and was elected as an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1927 and a Member in 1935.
He lived from 1911 until taking his own life in 1949 in Arundel House (51 Blackheath Park) in Blackheath, London SE3.