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. A View of CapeStephens in Cook Strait,New Zealand,with Waterspout mk129
During cook-s second voyage
on 11 May 1773
