Charles Hodgson (c.1770–1856) was an amateur English

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who was one of the founding members member of the

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. His son was David Hodgson, a notable artist in his own right.

Life

Charles Hodgson was born in around 1770 in

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. His father died when he was fourteen and the orphaned boy was adopted by a Mr Browne of

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, who gave his foster son a good education and nurtured his interest in drawing and painting. Hodgson became a schoolmaster and taught English at the grammar school in North Walsham for a few years.Walpole, Josephine, ''Art and Artists of the Norwich School'', p.136. On 15 May 1796 he married Nancy Chiswell in North Walsham. Their son David, who had several siblings, was born on 13 June 1798 and christened on 19 June in

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., based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City. As a boy David was encouraged to become an artist by his father and he exhibited his work at the Norwich Society of Artist's 1813 exhibition, and in later life became a noted artist and producer of literary works. In around 1798 Hodgson moved to Norwich and worked as an assistant master at the

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. In 1803

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and

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formed the Norwich Society of Artists, a group that also included Charles Hodgson, Robert Dixon,

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, James Stark and George Vincent. Their first exhibition, in 1805, marked the start of the Norwich School of painters, the first art movement created outside London. His works, which are mainly of the interiors of buildings in and around Norwich, shown that he was a talented artist. His output was necessarily limited by the need to earn a steady income as a teacher. He exhibited in Norwich until 1825, after which he was appointed as Architectural Draughtsman to the

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. Little of what Hodgson produced during his amateur artistic career appears to have survived. Hodgson later moved from Norwich to London, and then to

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and

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, where he died in 1856.FreeBMD
Charles Hodgson's death was registered in Preston, June quarter 1856.

References

External links

Works by Charles Hodgson
in the

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17 works relating to Charles Hodgson
at the Norfolk Museums Collections

Bibliography

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hodgson, Charles 1856 deaths British artists Artists from Norwich Year of birth uncertain People from North Walsham