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Sydney Lee

10 of 52 portraits by Francis Dodd

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Sydney Lee

by Francis Dodd
black chalk, 1920s?
15 in. x 11 in. (381 mm x 279 mm)
Purchased, 1964
Primary Collection
NPG 4423

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  • Sydney Lee (1866-1949), Painter, etcher and wood engraver. Sitter in 6 portraits.

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  • Francis Dodd (1874-1949), Painter and printmaker. Artist or producer associated with 52 portraits, Sitter in 5 portraits.

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Current affairs

The Government of Ireland Act (Fourth Home Rule Bill) partitions Ireland into the Irish Free State with a devolved parliament in Dublin and Northern Ireland with a devolved parliament in Belfast.
The Communist Party of Great Britain is founded in London, uniting a number of independent socialist and Marxist parties into a single, united party.

Art and science

Queen Alexandra unveils a monument to Edith Cavell in St Martin's Place opposite the National Portrait Gallery. The English nurse was executed in Germany for helping hundreds of allied soldiers to cross the border from occupied Belgium to the neutral Netherlands.
George V officially opens the Imperial War Museum at the Crystal Palace.

International

The Kapp Putsch threatens the newly formed Weimar Republic. In defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, the leaders of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt refused to disband and marched on Berlin, occupying it on the 13th March. With the general army refusing to defend the city, the government fled to Stuttgart. The rebellion, however, failed after the workers joined a general strike, disabling their plans.

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Robert Meyrick

07 November 2018, 19:05

This is not Sir Sydney Lee, Shakespearean scholar, it is Sydney Lee RA RE RWS (27 August 1866 – 31 October 1949). He was a friend and contemporary of Dodd at the RA. I borrowed a similar drawing by Dodd from Lee's great niece for my 2013 exhibition 'From the Shadows: The Prints of Sydney Lee RA' at the Academy in 2013.