ARTIST: John Evan Hodgson (British, 1831 - 1895)
TITLE: Village Scene with Horse Drawn Carriage
YEAR: 1882
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Board has horizontal crack. Some damage to edge in upper right corner. Few minor paint losses. Minor craquelure. Few scattered inpaintings. Frame is in poor condition.
ART SIZE: 23 x 36 inches / 58 x 91 cm
FRAME SIZE: 35 x 46 inches / 88 x 115 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online
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BIOGRAPHY:
John Evan Hodgson was an English painter. He painted domestic genres scenes, historical subjects, and in an orientalist fashion inspired by North Africa. Hodgson showed scenes of domestic life, such as The Arrest (1857), Elector and Candidate (1858), and The German Patriot's Wife (1859). A little later he took to historical subjects, and exhibited Sir Thomas More and his Daughters in Holbein's Studio (1861), The Return of Drake from Cadiz, 1587 (1862), The First Sight of the Armada (1863), Queen Elizabeth at Purfleet (1864), Taking Home the Bride, 1612 (1865), A Jew's Daughter accused of Witchcraft in the Middle Ages (1866), Evensong (1867), Off the Downs in the Days of the Caesars, and two domestic subjects (1868).A journey to the north of Africa in 1868 led to a change of subjects, and the first of Hodgson's oriental pictures, An Arab Story-teller, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1869. It was followed by a long series of pictures of life in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis.From 1879 Hodgson painted marine subjects, such as Homeward Bound (1880), Bound for the Black Sea and A Shipwrecked Sailor waiting for a Sail, his diploma work, exhibited in 1881. Versatile in his later years, he exhibited, among other works, Painter and Critic, Hobbema's Country, and In the Low Countries (1882), Robert Burns at the Plough (1887), and landscapes such as Rural England and Coleshill Common.Hodgson exhibited, in all, 90 pictures at the Royal Academy and about half that number at other galleries. He contributed, with Frederick A. Eaton, a series of articles on the history of the Academy in the eighteenth century to The Art Journal in 1889. He also published Academy Lectures in 1884, and Fifty Years of British Art on the occasion of the Manchester exhibition in 1887. He was a contributor to The Architect and other periodicals and journals.