William Hodges
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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, incl
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 with Waterspout, 1776
The Ghauts at Benares
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The Ghauts at Benares is a 1787 landscape painting by the British artist William Hodges. It depicts the ceremonial ghats on the River Ganges at Benares in Northern India. Having made his name by accom
William Hodges
…where he produced sketches of the city's riverbank architecture, culture, and bathing ghats; these sketches later formed the basis for his 1787 painting The Ghauts at Benares. He stayed in Lucknow with Claude Martin in 1783. His painting of "Futtypoor Sicri" is in Sir John Soane's Museum. In 1794 Hodges published an illustrated…
William Hodges The Ghauts of Benares 03 210 Royal Academy of Arts