A river landscape with monks conversing by a pair of megaliths, ruins beyond

Details

William Hodges, R.A. (London 1744-1797 Devon)
A river landscape with monks conversing by a pair of megaliths, ruins beyond
oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.3 cm.)

Provenance

G. Beatson Blair, Whally, Manchester.
with Drown, London.
with Spink, London.
with Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London.

Literature

W.G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London, 1953, p. 216, pl. 104a, as Richard Wilson.

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Lot Essay

This picture, which was thought by Constable (op. cit.) to be by Richard Wilson has recently be reattributed to William Hodges. It is thought likely to have been painted early in Hodges' career, in the late 1760s or early 1770s, before he set off as the official artist on Captain James Cook's second voyage to the South Pacific in 1772. Hodges, who had first attended classes at William Shipley's Academy in the Strand, was apprenticed to Richard Wilson from 1758 until 1765, and Wilson's work greatly influenced his development.

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