William Hodges 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.
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William Hodges studied under William Shipley, and afterwards in the studio of Richard Wilson, where he met Thomas Jones.
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Between 1772 and 1775 Hodges accompanied James Cook to the Pacific as the expedition's artist.
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William Hodges produced many valuable portrait sketches of Pacific islanders and scenes from the voyage involving members of the expedition.
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In 1778, under the patronage of Warren Hastings, William Hodges travelled to India, one of the first British professional landscape painters to visit that country.
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William Hodges remained there for six years, staying in Lucknow with Claude Martin in 1783.
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William Hodges's painting of "Futtypoor Sicri" is in Sir John Soane's Museum.
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Later William Hodges travelled across Europe, including a visit to St Petersburg in Russia in 1790.
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In 1793 William Hodges published an illustrated book about his travels in India.
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William Hodges' mother looked after her new grandson in a house in Tunbridge Wells, which William Hodges purchased.
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William Hodges's parents were already deceased when she married Hodges.
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At about the same time, William Hodges was listed as the guardian of Ann Mary's brother, John, later a famous travel writer.
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William Hodges was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1789, and continued to exhibit there until 1794.
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William Hodges had, therefore, with the profit of his labours in the East, taken a share in a provincial bank, which, with his attention, his integrity, and the many friends his virtues and talents had procured him, would probably have proved a prosperous undertaking.
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William Hodges has left to regret his loss a numerous train of friends and a widow, who is one of the most amicable and accomplished women in the kingdom, though the delicacy of her mind has chiefly confined the reputation of her merit and abilities within the sphere of domestic intercourse and enjoyment.
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