Charles Hodgson (artist)

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

[1] In around 1798 Hodgson moved to Norwich and worked as an assistant master at the grammar school.

In 1803 John Crome and Robert Ladbrooke formed the Norwich Society of Artists, a group that also included Charles Hodgson, Robert Dixon, Daniel Coppin, 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.