Captain Henry Parkyns Hoppner (1795 – 22 December 1833) was an officer of the Royal Navy, Arctic explorer, draughtsman[1] and artist.

There were three older brothers whom the father painted in the 1791 oil on canvas, The Hoppner Children, a part of the National Gallery of Art's Widener collection:[3][4] Hoppner joined the Royal Navy in 1808, and served during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812.

Murray Maxwell, escorting Lord Amherst to China on a diplomatic mission to the Jiaqing Emperor.

Hoppner is also credited with organizing bals masqués, masquerade balls held each month while overwintering in the Arctic.

[18] Regarding the masquerades, Parry remarked, "It is impossible that any other idea could have proved more happy, or more exactly suited to our situation.