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, New Zealand, Dusky Sound and the Antarctic. Hodges was born on 28 October 1744 in London.

Crater in the Pacific Ocean. William Hodges 1772-1775, oil on canvas, 101.5 × 127 cm Brighton Art Gallery and Museum---Krater im Pazifischen Ozean. William Hodges. 1772–1775, Öl auf Leinwand, 101,5 × 127 cm Brighton, Art Gallery and Museum Landschaftsmalerei Stil: Romantik----

For my senior honors thesis, I decided to focus on William Hodges. William Hodges was a eighteenth century painter, best known for his landscapes of India and the South Pacific. I narrowed my interests down to his works conducted on and inspired by his journey with Captain Cook to the South Pacific. This work has been

Jan 27, 2005 · Hodges’s paintings of Tahiti, New Zealand, and other islands of the South Pacific were revelatory in England, more for the sensational nature of Cook’s discovery of new and exotic places than as landscape paintings.

Buy a digital copy of "Crater in the Pacific ocean". In Brighton city. Crater in the Pacific ocean is one of artworks by William Hodges. Artwork analysis, large resolution images, user comments, interesting facts and much more.

William Hodges RA 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...

William Hodges RA (28 October 1744 – 6 March 1797) was an English painter.[1] 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.

Jul 11, 2004 · William Hodges is well known as the artist who accompanied Cook’s second voyage to the South Pacific as official landscape painter. This book—a major reappraisal of his career and reputation—presents him as one of the most intriguing and …

William Hodges is known for his paintings of Indian subjects and for his important work as the official artist on board the ‘Resolution’ during Captain Cook’s second expedition to the South...

The artist William Hodges accompanied Captain Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific in 1772-74. Son of a London metalworker, Hodges trained under Richard Wilson, an influential founder of the British school of landscape painting.