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Hodges and India

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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:09 authored by Geoffrey Quilley
Hodges arrived in India in January 1780. Joseph Farington suggested that he turned to India partly out of grief at the early death of his first wife. But his decision also demonstrated a combination of two of the primary characteristics of his artistic career: an oppurtunism, based on calculated risk to exploit the artistic and professional openings created by developing imperial expansion, together with an increasing artistic interest in the representation of history through landscape painting. The complexities involved in such an artistic project were indicated in paintings of Pacific subjects done for the Admiralty after Cook's voyage, and more particularly in his depictions of historic British buildings and locations made during 1777 and 1778 (cat. no. 73).

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  • Published

Publisher

National Maritime Museum

Page range

137-186

Pages

212.0

Book title

William Hodges 1744-1797: The Art of Exploration

Place of publication

London

ISBN

9780300103762

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  • Art History Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Geoffrey Quilley, John Bonehill

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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