Robert Dodd (artist)

Robert Dodd (1748 – 1815) was an English artist and engraver who specialised in marine art.

[1] He died in early 1815 and was buried on 20 February at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney.

[1] Dodd started his career as a landscape painter, but after gaining some recognition in this field, specialised in marine scenes.

Living in Wapping, London, he had plenty of material to hand in the way of ships, docks and wharfs, and much of his work includes scenes of the River Thames and naval dockyards.

[1] Other themes include battles and actions of the French Revolutionary Wars and the American War of Independence, prominently including a large canvas of the battle of the First of June for the dining room of his local inn, the Half Way House, in Commercial Road, London; the painting is now at the National Maritime Museum.