Very well painted, original oil portrait by the listed artist Charles Tattershall Dodd the younger (1861 - 1949), painted circa 1910.
Portrait of G. Ward Esq. wearing his academic gown, pince-nez spectacles and a splendid "Kitchener" moustache - thought to be George Ward, the then headmaster of Rochester School of Art (see details below).
Signed lower left and inscribed verso by the artist "G. Ward Esq. by C Tattershall Dodd"
Oil on canvas; in a period (possibly original) gilded wood frame.
Painting in excellent original condition (see photos), frame clean (see photos). Please note, there is some light reflection from the varnish, later images are taken with an altered light source.
Image 47cm x 38cm, frame 60.5cm x 51.5cm.
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Charles Tattershall Dodd (the younger) 1861 – 1949
British landscape and portrait painter in oils and watercolours, teacher.
Charles Tattershall Dodd was the son of an artist, also called Charles Tattershall Dodd (1815 – 1878), born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, where his father was a successful local landscape painter. Charles junior received his early artistic training from his father, who was the Drawing Master at Tonbridge School (see details below).
Charles junior exhibited landscapes and floral paintings between 1892 and 1947, showing works at the Walker Gallery Liverpool, but mainly in London, at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and most frequently at The Royal Academy.
His portrait work seems to have been a purely commercial enterprise and he painted several dignitaries local to Kent and his home town of Tunbridge Wells, some of which are now held in the Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery.
He followed in his father’s footsteps – becoming Drawing Master at Tonbridge School, but he maintained a studio for his own artistic practice at Grosvenor Lodge Studio, Tunbridge Wells.
Charles Tattershall Dodd (Senior) lived for most of his life in Tunbridge Wells and was the town's foremost Victorian artist. He exhibited local and Welsh scenes at the British Institution from 1830 and at the Royal Academy in 1840 and 1850, his landscapes being in the Constable tradition.
Tattershall Dodd was also Drawing Master at Tonbridge School for some forty years and, in 1864, he was appointed to give a course of instruction in drawing to their Royal Highnesses the Princess Amelia d'Orleans and Princess Christina d'Orleans, grand-daughters of Louis-Philippe, the last king of France.
George Ward Esquire
George Ward was an artist and art educator. He was the founding Headmaster of Rochester School of Art, from it’s inception in 1886 for forty years until he retired in 1926. He also taught art at Rochester Grammar School for Girls during the same period.