The Royal Academy and its members 1768-1830 (1905)
Hodgson, J. E. (John Evan), 1831-1895, Eaton, Frederick Alexis · London : John Murray · leaf 244
chools in 1772. In 1791 he went toNorwich, and remained there four or five years, paintingportraits chiefly. Returning to London, he soon obtained con-siderable patronage and celebrity as a fashionable portraitpainter, and was much in favour at the Court. He displayed qualities in his art, which,… … SIR WILLIAM BEECHEY 201 and scholarly painter, but his work, compared with Reynolds andothers, looks thin and meagre. He was elected an Associate in 1793, and Academician in1798, in which year he was knighted by George III. He diedin 1839, at the age of eighty-six. Henry Tresham, R.A., owed both…
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