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 voyage, including Table Bay, Tahiti, Easter Island, New Zealand, Dusky Sound and the Antarctic.
William Hodges, portrait by George Dance the Younger
Hodges' painting of HMS Resolution and HMS Adventure in Matavai Bay, Tahiti
Man of Easter Island, 1776 (British Museum)
A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits New Zealand with Waterspout, 1776
Captain James Cook was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
Portrait by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, c. 1775
Elizabeth Cook, wife and for 56 years widow of James Cook, by William Henderson, 1830
Cook landing at Botany Bay (Kamay)
Endeavour replica in Cooktown, Queensland harbour – anchored where the original Endeavour was beached for seven weeks in 1770