W. M. Hodgkins

William Mathew Hodgkin
Hodgkins c. 1873
Born23 September 1833 (1833-09-23)
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Died9 February 1898 (1898-02-10) (aged 64)
Dunedin, New Zealand
Children2
W. M. Hodgkins with some of his family in 1892: daughters Frances (left) and Isabel (holding Japanese sunshade), his wife Rachael, and his future son-in-law William Field

William Mathew Hodgkins (23 September 1833 – 9 February 1898) was a 19th-century New Zealand painter.[1]

He was a leading advocate of art in Dunedin and founded New Zealand's first art gallery in the city. He was a considerable water colour painter in his own right. According to his daughter Frances Hodgkins, he was the 'father of art in New Zealand.' He encouraged both his daughters in their art practices and Frances went on to become regarded as Britain's most distinguished woman artist at the time of her death and is still New Zealand's best regarded expatriate painter.

  1. ^ Entwisle, Peter. (1984) "William Mathew Hodgkins" in William Mathew Hodgkins & his Circle, Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Public Art Gallery. ISBN 0-473-00263-9