William Hodges

William Hodges RA (28 October 1744 – 6 March 1797) was an English painter.^[1] 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.

The Life of Captain James Cook. ISBN 0-8047-0848-7.

Crompton, Gordon. Cook's Log, page 894, volume 16, number 1 (1993)

Smith, B., European Vision and the South Pacific. 0-300-04479-8.

Smith, B., "William Hodges and English Plein-Air Painting", in Art History; 6:2 (1983)

I. C. Stuebe, The Life and Works of William Hodges (1979)

at the Art UK site

an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on William Hodges (nos. 17 & 18)