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Dod Procter

Dod Procter (1892 - 1972) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England.  Dod Procter is known for Portrait and floral still life painting.

Born in 1890, Doris (Dod) Shaw moved with her mother and brother to the Cornish town of Newlyn to enroll in Stanhope Forbes' School of Painting.  Well known for it's plein-air and genre painting the school attracted students from across the country, including Ernest Procter.  Meeting at the school, Ernest and Dod fell deeply in love, however had to wait until 1912 to marry due to Dod's youthful age.

During World War I Ernest saw active service in France while Dod looked after their baby son, Bill, and continued to paint amongst the artistic community in Cornwall.  On Ernest's return a chance encounter with the Chinese merchant, Lim Ching Tsong in a Newlyn hotel, led to the couple being commissioned to decorate his Palace in Rangoon, Burma with a set of murals.  Enticed by a lucrative offer and the chance of adventure Ernest and Dod left Bill with the nanny and embarked on Christmas Eve 1919 for Burma.

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Dod Procter available:    Thomas Sidney Cooper,  William Brooker,  Gilbert Spencer,  Frederick Gore,  Christopher (Kit) Wood,  Joan Gillchrest,  Edward Wolfe,  Carel Victor Marlais Weight,  John Anthony Park,  Mary Potter,  Gerald Leslie Brockhurst,  Nancy Bailey,  Mary Fedden,  Eliot Hodgkin,  Gill Watkiss,  Lamorna Birch,  Ernest Procter,  Ronald Ossory Dunlop,  Roger Elliot Fry,  Daphne McClure,  Eric Gill,  Richard Eurich,  James Ferrier Pryde,  Rose Phipps Hilton