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