Carron Lodge Explained

Carron Angus Cyril Oliver Lodge (born 1882,^[1] in Bruges, Belgium^[2] – 24 June 1910, in London) was an English figure and landscape painter.

The son of a barrister,^[3] he trained as an artist and was a Royal Academy Schools student from 27 January 1903 to January 1908.^[4] He went on to exhibit at the Royal Academy between 1906 and 1910. Lodge was the father of the black and white artist Francis Graham Lodge. At the age of 27, Carron Lodge died at home from an overdose of sulphonal. At the time his wife Winifred was expecting their second child.

Exhibits

• Royal Academy
  • Cat No. 1048 Commerce in 1906
  • Cat No. 1453 The Good Samaritan in 1907
    • A watercolour drawing depicting a study for The Good Samaritan was given to the V&A by Carron's sister, Miss Winifred M. Lodge. The watercolour can be viewed in the V&A Collections Signed 'C. O. Lodge. 1905.'
• New English Art Club in 1910
  • Cat No. 65 The Path to the Monastery
  • Cat No. 109 The King's Vision
  • Cat No. 162 Nativity
• Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham (1)
• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (1)
• London Salon (6)

Residences

• 1907 at 9 Gatestone Rd, Upper Norwood, SE
• 1910 at 14 Belgrave Road, London NW (where he died)

Notable relatives

First Cousins Once Removed

• Sir Oliver Lodge (scientist)
• Sir Richard Lodge (historian)
• George Edward Lodge (artist)
• Eleanor Constance Lodge

Second Cousin

• Oliver W. F. Lodge

References

1. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/carron-angus-cyril-oliver-lodge
2. 1901 UK census entry for 9 Gatestone Road, Upper Norwood, London SE
3. 1871 UK census entry for 61 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London
4. https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/name/carron-angus-cyril-oliver-lodge