Catharine Dodgson

Frances Catharine Dodgson (née Spooner; 15 December 1883 – 30 April 1954) was a British artist, known for her skill as a portraitist.

Biography Dodgson was born in Oxford. Her parents were Frances Wycliffe, who was the daughter of a bishop, and the academic William Spooner who became the warden of New College, Oxford and known for his spoonerisms. Dodgson enrolled in the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford at the age of 15 and went on to study at the Royal Academy Schools in London and also briefly at the Slade School of Art. In 1913 she married the Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, Campbell Dodgson.

Dodgson did not develop her own art until the early 1930s.

A memorial exhibition for Dodgson was held at Colnaghis' Gallery during October and November 1954. New College, Oxford has portraits by her of Herbert Hall Turner and H. A. L. Fisher.