painter and teacher, ran a 'teaching academy’ in Bourke Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, in conjunction with his daughters during the late 1840s. Two pictures by him – Old London Bridge and View on the Seine – were offered for sale by the dealer E. Salamon at the 1847 exhibition of the Society for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Australia. He was again represented in the society’s 1849 exhibition with The Infant Samuel (copied from Reynolds?), Scotch Thistle and Dog’s Head , a 'copy from Edwin Landseer, hit off with great spirit’. In 1850 Dodd was a member of the Australian Society of Artists, a short-lived mutual benefit union.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
