W. M. Hodgkins

William Mathew Hodgkins was a 19th-century New Zealand painter.
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.