# River Landscape [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HODGES, William]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 63 x 77 cm ## Commentary This painting represents a river landscape with monks conversing by a pair of megaliths, with ruins beyond. Having trained at the Shipley Academy in the Strand, Hodges became a pupil and assistant to Richard Wilson from 1758 to 1765. Painted prior to his voyage to the South Pacific with Captain Cook in 1772, this picture is indebted to Wilson's classical landscape. ## Related artworks - [Tahiti Revisited]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()