Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Biography  





2 References  














Catharine Dodgson







Add links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Catharine Dodgson
Born

Frances Catharine Spooner


15 December 1883
Oxford, England
Died30 April 1954(1954-04-30) (aged 70)
London, England
Known forPainting & drawing
Spouse(s)Campbell Dodgson, m. 1913-1948, his death.

Frances Catharine Dodgson, née Spooner, (15 December 1883 – 30 April 1954) was a British artist, known for her skill as a portraitist.

Biography

[edit]

Dodgson was born in Oxford. Her parents were Frances Wycliffe, who was the daughter of a bishop, and the academic William Spooner who became the warden of New College, Oxford and known for his spoonerisms.[1] Dodgson enrolled in the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford at the age of 15 and went on to study at the Royal Academy Schools in London and also briefly at the Slade School of Art.[2][3] In 1913 she married the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, Campbell Dodgson.[4]

Dodgson did not develop her own art until the early 1930s.[2] From 1933 to 1945 she exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy in London.[3] She exhibited mainly portrait pieces, including one of her husband in 1933 and then of Dean Inge and Sir Thomas Barlow in subsequent years.[1] Two solo exhibitions of Dodgson's work were held at Colnaghis' Gallery in London, in 1936 and 1939.[1][3] Dodgson refused several offers of portrait commissions, preferring to ask friends and family members to sit for her.[1] Later she made a series of drawings of dancers at the Covent Garden Opera and some landscape sketches of Regent's Park in London.[5]

A memorial exhibition for Dodgson was held at Colnaghis' Gallery during October and November 1954.[1] Both the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Ashmolean Museum in Cambridge and the British Council hold examples of her drawings.[6][7] New College, Oxford has portraits by her of Herbert Hall Turner and H. A. L. Fisher.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e HCG Matthew & Brian Harrison, ed. (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Vol 16 (Dewws-Dryland). Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-861366-0.
  • ^ a b Cathy Hartley (2003). A Historical Dictionary of British Women. Routledge. ISBN 1857432282.
  • ^ a b c Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1-85149-106-6.
  • ^ "Marriage. Mr Campbell Dodgson and Miss Spooner". The Times. 25 September 1913. Retrieved 10 January 2020.
  • ^ "Collections Explorer Catharine Dodgson". The Fitzwilliam Museum. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  • ^ "Catherine Dodgson (1883-1954)". British Council. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  • ^ "Collection online Frances Catharine Dodgson". British Museum. Retrieved 10 September 2019.

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catharine_Dodgson&oldid=1173904442"

    Categories: 
    1883 births
    1954 deaths
    20th-century English women artists
    Alumni of the Royal Academy Schools
    Alumni of the Ruskin School of Art
    Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art
    Artists from Oxford
    Hidden categories: 
    Articles with short description
    Short description is different from Wikidata
    Use British English from September 2019
    Use dmy dates from September 2019
    Pages using infobox person with multiple spouses
    Articles with hCards
    Articles with VIAF identifiers
    Articles with RKDartists identifiers
    Articles with ULAN identifiers
     



    This page was last edited on 5 September 2023, at 03:40 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki