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        <h1 class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">William Hodges (1744 – 1797)</h1>
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      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">We Perform William Hodges art authentication. <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/appraisal/painting-appraisal.php">William Hodges appraisal</a>. <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/certificate-of-authenticity.php">William Hodges certificates of authenticity (COA)</a>. william Hodges analysis, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/provenance-research.php">research</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication/scientific-tests.php">scientific tests</a>, <a href="https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/authentication.php">full art authentications</a>. We will help you sell your William Hodges or we will sell it for you.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/hodges/Hodges,_Resolution_and_Adventure_in_Matavai_Bay.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">The HMS Revolution and the HMS Adventure in Tahiti</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">William Hodges was an English painter. He was a member of James Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and is best known for the sketches and paintings of locations he visited on that voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, and the Antarctic. Hodges was a student of William Shipley and Richard Wilson. During his early career, he made a living by painting theatrical scenery.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/hodges/Hodges_PortraitofJamesCook.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Portrait of James Cook</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Hodges accompanied Cook to the Pacific as the expedition’s artist in 1772-1775. Many of his sketches and wash paintings were adapted as engravings in the original published edition of Cook’s journals from the voyage.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/hodges/Hodges_ACraterNearthePacificOcean.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">A Crater Near the Pacific Ocean</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Most of the large-scale landscape oil paintings from his Pacific travels for which Hodges is best known were also produced after his return to London; he received a salary from the Admiralty for the purposes of completing them. These paintings are especially notable as being some of the first landscapes to use light and shadow for dramatic purposes. Hodges’ use of light as a compositional element in its own right was a marked departure from the classical landscape tradition. Contemporary art critics complained that his use of light and color contrasts gave his paintings a rough and unfinished appearance.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/hodges/Hodges_DodoAndRedParakeet1773.jpg" alt="art" width="auto" height="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">Dodo and Red Parakeet 1773</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Hodges also produced many portrait sketches of Pacific Islanders and scenes from the voyage involving members of the expedition. However, his skills as a portrait artist were average, at best. In 1778, Hodges traveled to India, the first English professional landscape painter to visit that country. He remained there for 6 years, staying in Lucknow with Claude Martin in 1783. Later in life he traveled on the Continent, including a visit to St. Petersburg in Russia in 1790.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/hodges/Hodges_AMosqueAtGazipoor1787.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">A Mosque at Gazipoor, 1787</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">In late 1794, Hodges opened an exhibition of his own works in London that included two large paintings called The Effects of Peace and The Effects of War. In late January, 1795, the exhibition was visited by Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, the second son of King George III. The Duke took offense at the political nature of Hodges’ paintings and ordered the exhibition closed; this Royal censure effectively ended Hodges’ career as a painter.</p>
      <p  class="wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s"><img src="uploads/artists/artists_a-k/hodges/Hodges_ViewoftheRuinsOfAPalaceAtGazipoor.jpg" alt="art" width="auto"></p>
      <div class="boldcap wow fadeInRight" data-wow-delay=".4s">View of the Ruins of a Palace at Gazipoor 1787</div>
      <p class="wow fadeInLeft" data-wow-delay=".4s">Hodges retired to Devon and became involved with a bank which failed during the banking crisis of March, 1797. On March 6 of that year, he died from what was officially recorded as “gout in the stomach”, but which was also rumored to be suicide from an overdose of laudanum.</p>
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