British naval officer and topographical artist, joined the Royal Navy at the age of 15 as an able-bodied seaman on HMS Resolution under Captain James Cook, who was making his second Pacific Voyage (1772-75). Influenced by the expedition’s official artist, William Hodges , he produced charts and wash drawings of coastal views that he later prepared for engraving, e.g. Otaheite, when Point Venus bears S.W. by W. 5 miles distant c.1774, w/c (Mitchell Library [ML] PXD 11, f.16). He served as master’s mate on Cook’s Third Voyage (1776-1780), when Lieutenant John Gore described him as 'most certainly a very Deserving young Man’. His journal of the voyage is generously illustrated with watercolours of coastal profiles and charts, including a watercolour of The Resolution 1777 (ML PXD 11, f.34), while an ink and watercolour sketch, Ka’ra’ca’coo’a Bay in the Island of O’why’he [Hawaii] 1779, appears in 'A Log of the Proceedings of His Majesties Sloop Resolution… 1776/1779 (Dixson Library MSQ 152, vol.2, p.45).
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