Francis Edwin Hodge (1881-1949)

Decorative artist and portrait painter born in Plymouth, Devon and educated at Westminster School of Art where his tutors included Frank Brangwyn and Augustus John before furthering his studies at the Slade School of Fine Art and in Paris. He later assisted Gerald Moira at the Royal College of Art and showed at the Royal Academy, International Society of Sculptors, Painters & Gravers, New English Art Club, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, USA, Paris Salon and at the Royal Society of British Artists who elected him a member in 1915. He also showed at the Chenil Gallery, Cooling Galleries, Grosvenor Gallery, Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Goupil Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, New English Art Club and at the Royal Scottish Academy. Hodge who enlisted in the Artists' Rifles saw active service in World War I as a Captain