Francis Edwin Hodge (December 1881 – 6 February 1949) was an English painter.

Biography

Born in Devon, Hodge studied at the Westminster School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. Among his other teachers were Augustus John, William Orpen and

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and he also studied for a short time in Paris. Hodge enlisted in the

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at the start of World War I and served as a captain in the

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on the

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. He continued to paint during the conflict and some of those paintings are now held by the

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. His work was entered to the painting event in the art competition at the

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. During World War Two, the War Artists' Advisory Committee purchased examples of his work.

Membership

Hodge was a member of or affiliated with the following organisations: * 1915: Elected to the

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, * 1927: Elected member of Royal Institute of Oil Painters, * 1929: Elected member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, * 1931: Elected member of the

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Hodge was also a member of the Chelsea Arts Club.

References

*Andrew Ellis, Sonia Roe (eds.), ''Oil paintings in public ownership in the Imperial War Museum'', Public Catalogue Foundation, 2006.

External links

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Works by Hodge in the Imperial War Museum
1881 births 1949 deaths 20th-century English painters Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art British Army personnel of World War I British war artists English male painters Artists from Devon Royal Field Artillery officers World War I artists World War II artists Olympic competitors in art competitions 20th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub