Painting ID:: 94432
Hodges' painting of HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure in Matavai Bay, Tahiti cjr
William Hodges English Painter, 1744-1797
English painter. He first attended classes at William Shipley's Academy in the Strand, London, and from 1758 to 1765 was apprenticed to Richard Wilson (about whom he published a short biographical essay in 1790). Hodges followed Wilson's classical landscape style periodically throughout his career. Hodges' painting of HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure in Matavai Bay, Tahiti cjr
