Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
Artists
(1880 - 1952)
Dugdale studies at Manchester School of Art, Royal Collage of art, City and Guilds of London Art School, Academie Julian in Paris and the Academie Colarossi! He first exhibited with the Royal Academy in 1901 aged twenty one.
Dugdale served in the first world war and organised a Home Guard unit in Suffolk in the second world war. His war paintings were exhibited at the Leicester Galleries and some were aquired by the British War Memorials Committee. He was also commissioned to paint a number of RAF pilots and merchant seamen by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. He continued to produce important pieces of work after the war.