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‘Nude Woman Reading Against a Teal Coloured Backdrop’
Oil on canvas laid on board, 61 x 53cm
Signed with initials
In original Charles Bradley frame
Born in 1881, Francis Edwin Hodge studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, with further studies in Paris. The painter was tutored by Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961) and the celebrated Irish portrait painter, William Orpen, K.B.E., R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1937). Like Orpen, Hodge was commissioned as an official war artist by the British Army during the First World War, and served as a captain in the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front. During the interwar period, Hodge competed in the art competition of the 1932 Summer Olympics, and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy throughout the decade. He married Mfanwy Hazel Bruce Dunlop (1911-2005), also an artist, in 1939, just as World War II broke out. A decade later, the War Artists’ Advisory Committee purchased examples of his work (now on view at the Imperial War Museums). Hodge’s work was much admired by his contemporaries, and such was Orpen’s admiration for Hodge that he hung a painting by his former student at his home in Chelsea, one depicting a reclining female nude, painted in 1928 (the painting’s current whereabouts are unknown). Following Hodge’s death in February 1949, in honour of his artistic merit and contributions to portraiture, the Royal Academy exhibited a portrait by the artist of ‘The late Sir William Orpen’. Although unlikely to be the same portrait, the Ulster Museum holds an unfinished oil sketch of Orpen by Hodge (BELUM.U298).
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‘Nude Woman Reading Against a Teal Coloured Backdrop’
Oil on canvas laid on board, 61 x 53cm
Signed with initials
In original Charles Bradley frame
Born in 1881, Francis Edwin Hodge studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, with further studies in Paris. The painter was tutored by Augustus Edwin John, O.M., R.A. (1878-1961) and the celebrated Irish portrait painter, William Orpen, K.B.E., R.A., R.H.A. (1878-1937). Like Orpen, Hodge was commissioned as an official war artist by the British Army during the First World War, and served as a captain in the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front. During the interwar period, Hodge competed in the art competition of the 1932 Summer Olympics, and regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy throughout the decade. He married Mfanwy Hazel Bruce Dunlop (1911-2005), also an artist, in 1939, just as World War II broke out. A decade later, the War Artists’ Advisory Committee purchased examples of his work (now on view at the Imperial War Museums). Hodge’s work was much admired by his contemporaries, and such was Orpen’s admiration for Hodge that he hung a painting by his former student at his home in Chelsea, one depicting a reclining female nude, painted in 1928 (the painting’s current whereabouts are unknown). Following Hodge’s death in February 1949, in honour of his artistic merit and contributions to portraiture, the Royal Academy exhibited a portrait by the artist of ‘The late Sir William Orpen’. Although unlikely to be the same portrait, the Ulster Museum holds an unfinished oil sketch of Orpen by Hodge (BELUM.U298).