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.
ID: 35406 Review of the War Galleys at Tahiti mk102
c.1776
Oil on panel
24.1x47.0cm
National Maritime Museum
London