The British Fleet Passing the Castle of Cronenbergh into the Sound, 30 March 1801

Location

Country: Denmark
City: Copenhagen
Place: British Embassy

Robert Dodd was the son of Alexander Dodd, of whom little is known. Robert began his career in London as a landscape painter, but later turned to marine scenes. By 1772, the year he married Mary Fulton, he was living in Wapping, east London. He first showed his work at the Society of Artists in 1780 and, in 1782, began exhibiting at the Royal Academy. Many of his paintings depict battles of the French Revolutionary Wars or the American War of Independence. He also painted ship portraits and scenes of the River Thames and of London’s naval dockyards. From about 1783, he engraved and published aquatints after his own works. Towards the end of his life, Dodd lived near Commercial Street in east London. He died at about the age of 67.

Places

Denmark

Subjects

sail, fleet, topography, seascape/coastal scene, smoke, sea, sound, castle, ship

Materials & Techniques

aquatint

Artist

Robert Dodd (1748 - 1815)

Title

The British Fleet Passing the Castle of Cronenbergh into the Sound, 30 March 1801

Date

Medium

Aquatint

Acquisition

Origin uncertain

GAC number

10789