W. M. Hodgkins
William Mathew Hodgkins (23 September 1833 – 9 February 1898) was a 19th-century New Zealand painter.Entwisle, Peter. (1984) "William Mathew Hodgkins" in ''William Mathew Hodgkins & his Circle'', Dunedin, NZ: Dunedin Public Art Gallery. 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. Life Baptised in Liverpool 23 September 1833 in the heart of the city's slums he was the son of a brushmaker, also called William Hodgkins. His mother had been Jane Grocott or Groocock and his sister Jane was born in 1835. William Mathew went to school at Staveley, Derbys ...
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Hodgkins Family
Hodgkins may refer to: ;In people * Frances Hodgkins, an abstract painter * Louise Manning Hodgkins (1846-1935), American educator, author, editor * W. M. Hodgkins, New Zealand painter, father of Frances Hodgkins ;In places * Hodgkins, Illinois, a village in the United States * Hodgkins Seamount, in the northern Pacific Ocean * Hodgkins (crater), a crater on Mercury ;Other uses * Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer See also * Hodgkin Hodgkin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Lloyd Hodgkin (1914–1998), British physiologist and biophysicist * Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994), British chemist who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964, wife of Th ...