ARTIST: John Evan Hodgson (British, 1831 - 1895)
NAME: Return from the Shoot
YEAR: 1888
MEDIUM: oil on board
CONDITION: Horizontal crack to left edge of board. Very minor craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. Frame is in poor condition.
SIGHT SIZE: 18 x 24 inches / 45 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: 23 x 29 inches / 58 x 73 cm
SIGNATURE: lower left
PROVENANCE: Christie's, Date 1988-10-25, Lot 113
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.The elder son of John Hodgson, a Russia merchant and member of a leading family in Newcastle upon Tyne, he was born in London. At the age of four he was taken to St. Petersburg, but was sent to England eight years later for his education. He entered Rugby school in February 1846, and on leaving school returned to St. Petersburg and entered his father's counting-house.Influenced by the old masters in The Hermitage collection and John Ruskin's Modern Painters, Hodgson gave up commerce for an artist's career.In 1853 he went to London and entered as a student at the Royal Academy of Arts. He exhibited his first picture, The Notice of Ejectment, in 1856. From 1859 he lived at 5 Hill Road, Abbey Road, London, and he became a member of the group known later as the St John's Wood set, of which Philip Calderon was the leader.Hodgson was elected an associate of the Royal Academy on 28 January 1873, and an academician on 18 December 1879. He was appointed librarian to the Royal Academy in 1882 in succession to Solomon Alexander Hart, and professor of painting later in the same year in succession to Edward Armitage. He died on 19 June 1895 at The Larches, Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, where he had resided for about ten years[1] and was buried in the family grave in Highgate Cemetery.