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, pp. 139–140, no. 77, reproduced fig. 55;

J. Roundell, ‘William Hodges’s Paintings of the South Pacific’, in Connoisseur, vol. 200, February 1979, p. 85, reproduced in colour p. 84, fig. B;

J. Roundell, ‘William Hodges’, in James Cook, Journal of H.M.S. Resolution, London 1981, pp. 122 and 138, reproduced pl. IV;

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, p. 159, no. 2.41, reproduced;

J. Bonehill, in William Hodges, 1744–1797: The Art of Exploration, G. Quilley and J. Bonehill (eds), exh. cat., London 2004, p. 89, n. 1;

L. Simmons, Tuhituhi. William Hodges, Cook’s Painter in the South Pacific, Dunedin 2011, p. 103.