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. Related Paintings of William Hodges :. | A Waterfaill in Tahiti | Hodges' painting of HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure in Matavai Bay, Tahiti | View of the Jungle Ferry Jungleterry in Bengal | The Pantheon,Oxford Street | A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits with Waterspout, 1776 | Related Artists:
GRECO, ElGreek-born Spanish Mannerist Painter, 1541-1614
Greek painter, designer and engraver, active in Italy and Spain. One of the most original and interesting painters of 16th-century Europe, he transformed the Byzantine style of his early paintings into another, wholly Western manner. He was active in his native Crete, in Venice and Rome, and, during the second half of his life, in Toledo. He was renowned in his lifetime for his originality and extravagance and provides one of the most curious examples of the oscillations of taste in the evaluation of a painter,
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