William Hodges, R.A.

Possibly Sir William Foulis, 7th Bt. (1759–1822), Ingleby Manor, Yorkshire;

By descent to his daughter Hannah Foulis, Mrs Danson Richardson Roundell (1791–1861), Ingleby Manor and Gledstone House, Yorkshire; 

By descent to her son, Charles Saville Roundell (1827–1906), Nantwich, Cheshire and Sussex Sq, Brighton;

By descent to Christopher Foulis Roundell (1876–1958), Nantwich, Cheshire and Ashley Gardens, London; 

Thence by descent to the present owner. 

Manchester, City Art Gallery, Exhibition of Works of Art from Private Collections in the North West of England and North Wales, 21 September – 30 October 1960, no. 137.

J. Pickard, William Hodges’s Paintings of the South Pacific, B.A. Thesis, Cambridge, 1973;

I.C. Stuebe, The Life and Works of William Hodges, New York and London 1979, p. 106, no. 15, reproduced fig. 12;

B. Smith, ‘William Hodges and English Plein-Air Painting’, in Art History, vol. VI, no. 2, June 1983, p. 148, reproduced fig. 30;

R. Joppien and B. Smith, The Art of Captain Cook’s Voyages. Volume Two. The Voyage of the Resolution and Adventure 1772–1775, New Haven and London 1985, pp. 57 and 174, no. 2.63, reproduced.