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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