Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

{{Infobox artist

| name = Thomas Cantrell Dugdale

| birth_date = {{birth date|1880|6|2|df=y}}

| birth_place = Blackburn, Lancashire, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|1952|11|13|1880|6|2|df=y}}

| death_place = London

| spouse = {{marriage|Amy Katherine Browning|1916}}

| nationality = British

| field = Portrait painting

| training = {{unbulleted list|Manchester School of Art|Royal College of Art|City and Guilds of London Art School|Academie Julian|Académie Colarossi}}

}}

Thomas Cantrell Dugdale {{Post-nominals|post-noms=RA RP ROI}} (2 June 1880 – 13 November 1952) was a British artist. He was a member of the Royal Academy, was a renowned portrait painter and served as a war artist in both World War One and World War Two.

Biography

File:Military Policemen in Palestine, c.1918 Art.IWMART6224.jpg

Dugdale was born in Blackburn in Lancashire and attended Manchester Grammar School.{{cite web |url=http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6234741.Artist_s_right_Royal_picture/ |title=Artist's right Royal picture |date=10 January 2006|access-date=2 June 2016|work=Lancashire Telegraph}} He initially studied art at the Manchester School of Art before continuing his studies at the Royal College of Art.{{cite book|publisher=Editions Grund, Paris|year=2006|title=Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 4 Cossintino-Dyck|isbn=2-7000-3074-5}} He also studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and in Paris at the Academie Julian and the Académie Colarossi.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=1998|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-95326-095-X}}{{cite book|author=Brian Stewart & Mervyn Cutten|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1997|title=The Dictionary of Portrait Painters in Britain up to 1920|isbn=1-85149-173-2}} Dugdale first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1901 and continued to do so until 1952.{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900-1950}} In 1910 he enlisted in the British Army and during World War One, Dugdale served as a Staff Sergeant in the Middlesex Yeomanry in Egypt, Palestine and Gallipoli.{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp01376/thomas-cantrell-dugdale|title=Artist: Thomas Cantrell Dugdale|access-date=2 June 2016|work=National Portrait Gallery}} While on active service Dugdale continued to paint and four of these pieces were acquired by the British War Memorials Committee. A selection of Dugdale's paintings from Palestine and Egypt were shown at the Leicester Galleries in London in April 1919.{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1050000129 |title=First World War Art Archive: T C Dugdale |access-date=2 June 2016|work=Imperial War Museum}} The Witt Library has a number of political cartoons by Dugdale, possibly dating from around 1914 but it is unclear if, or where, they were intended for publication.{{cite book|author=Simon Houfe|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1996|title=The Dictionary of 19th Century British Book Illustrators |isbn=1-85149-1937}}

During World War Two, Dugdale lived in Suffolk where he organised a Home Guard unit. Throughout the conflict, from July 1940 to July 1945, Dugdale received portrait commissions from the War Artists' Advisory Committee to depict several merchant seaman and RAF pilots.{{cite web |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1050000877 |title=War artist archive: Thomas C Dugdale |access-date=2 June 2016|work=Imperial War Museum}}{{cite web |author=Matt Brosnan|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/7-artworks-of-the-battle-of-britain|title=7 Artworks of the Battle of Britain |access-date=15 October 2016|work=Imperial War Museum}}

In addition to his oil paintings, Dugdale designed book covers and was also a textile designer. Early in his career he designed woodcut decorations for some books. For twenty years, from 1919, Dugdale was an advisor to the textile company Tootal Broadhurst Lee. He was married to a fellow artist, Amy Katherine Browning from 1916.{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp141367/amy-katherine-browning-mrs-thomas-cantrell-dugdale|title=Artist: Amy Katherine Browning|access-date=2 June 2016|work=National Portrait Gallery}}{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|author-link=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |isbn=1-85149-106-6}}

His work was also part of the art competitions at the 1932 Summer Olympics and the 1948 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920466 |title=Thomas Cantrell Dugdale |work=Olympedia |access-date=9 February 2023}}

Memberships

1910: Member, Royal Institute of Oil Painters
1925: Member, Royal Society of Portrait Painters
1936: Elected associate of the Royal Academy,{{cite web |url=http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Academicians&person=5630|title=Thomas Cantrell Dugdale R.A |access-date=2 June 2016|work=Royal Academy}}
1943: Elected full member of the Royal Academy.

References

External links

{{Art UK bio}}
[http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/list.php?m=o&s=du&oid=3547.&f=a&fa=8761 Works by Dugdale] in the Royal Air Force Museum collection
[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=Thomas++Dugdale&items_per_page=10 Works by Dugdale] in the Imperial War Museum collection
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{{s-ttl|title=President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts |years=1946–49}}

Category:1880 births

Category:1952 deaths

Category:20th-century English male artists

Category:20th-century English painters

Category:Académie Colarossi alumni

Category:Alumni of Manchester Metropolitan University

Category:Académie Julian alumni

Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art

Category:British Army personnel of World War I

Category:British Home Guard soldiers

Category:Alumni of the City and Guilds of London Art School