An artist’s signature can prove useful as a device for dating a work. Some artists remained fairly consistent in their signature style, while others’ signatures evolved over time. This is certainly the case in Frances Hodgkins’ works. When examining her paintings, experts can narrow down a date for the work in question based on the style of her signature.
Frances Hodgkins Signature Timeline
1893
Old Boathouse, Port Chalmers
Watercolour & gouache, 20 x 36 cm
Signed with monogram FH centre right
1899
Maori Girl in Blue
Watercolour, 29 x 21 cm
Signed FH top right & dated '99
1900
Maori Girl
Watercolour, 32 x 21.5 cm
Signed FH & dated '00
1901
Calves for Sale, Les Andelys,
Watercolour on paper, 20 x 15.5 cm
Signed FH & dated 1901 lower right
1901
Old Woman, Caudebec,
Watercolour & gouache, 50 x 32 cm
Signed FH lower right & dated ’01
1901-1902
Mother and Daughter Preparing Flowers
Watercolour, 29 x 22 cm
Signed with initials FH lower right
1902
A Street Market in Brittany
Watercolour, 17 x 12 cm
Signed FH lower right
1902
Breton Pottery c.1902
Watercolour, 17.5 x 11.3 cm
Signed with monogram FH lower right
1902
Rue de l’Horloge, Dinan
Watercolour, 35 x 26 cm
Signed with initials FH & dated 1902 lower right
1903
Study of a Sudanese
Watercolour, 35.5 x 25.5 cm
Signed FH & dated '03 lower right
1905
Preparing food at a Maori Village, Rotorua
Watercolour, 26.5 x 22 cm
Signed & dated 1905
1907
The Bridge, Dordrecht
Watercolour, 41 x 47 cm
Signed F Hodgkins lower right
1907
The Canal, Dordrecht
Watercolour, 43.5 x 53.5 cm
Signed F Hodgkins & dated 07 lower right
1910
Gypsies on Hilltop
Watercolour, 47.5 x 45 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1910-14
The Family After Dinner
Watercolour, 55 x 71 cm
Signed F Hodgkins lower right
1917
Children Playing
Watercolour, 42 x 42 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
Inscribed "To Mrs Hellyer from Frances Hodgkins, 1917"
1917
Child Asleep
Watercolour 26 x 26 cm
Signed lower right
1918
Portrait of Miss Beatrice Wood
Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 73 cm
Signed lower right
1919
The Little Wine Shop
Watercolour, 44 x 31 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left
1919
Ludlow Castle, c.1919
Watercolour, 23 x 23 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1921
Cassis Quarryman and Wife
Black chalk, 32 x 45 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower centre & titled Cassis Quarryman and Wife verso
1922
Burford High Street, Oxfordshire
Watercolour & pencil, 11 x 13 cm
Signed F Hodgkins lower right
1926
The Water Wheel
Watercolour & pencil, 20 x 30.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1926
Bridgnorth c. 1926
Pencil, ink, watercolour & wash on card
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1927
Girl Seated on a Chair C. 1927
Gouache, 53 x 34 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1927
Lancashire Children
Oil on canvas, 74 x 61 cm
Signed lower left & lower right
1928
Flowers and Spanish Pottery
Watercolour, 39 x 46 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
Titled verso Flowers and Spanish Pottery
1929
The Croquet Game, Peaslake c. 1929
Pencil on paper, 32 x 50 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1930
The Sitting Room
Black chalk on paper, 30 x 30 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower centre
1930
Three Bowls of Flowers
Watercolour & gouache, 51 x 54 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left
1931
Still Life with a Vase of Flowers and Eggs c.1931
Watercolour, 49 x 39 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1931
A Barn in Provence
Watercolour & gouache, 34.5 x 46 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left
1931
Bodinnick, Cornwall
Watercolour, 45 x 37 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left
Inscribed Bodinnick, Cornwall lower right
1931-34
The Croft, Still life with Divan
(The Croft: View from a window / The Ottoman)
Oil on canvas, 63.5 x 76.2 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1932
Pleasure Boat, Bridgnorth c. 1932
Watercolour and gouache on paper, 52.5 x 41.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1933
Ibiza
Watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 48.3 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
Inscribed Ibiza lower left
1933
Figures in a Mediterranean Landscape
Watercolour, 48 x 36 cm
Signed in pencil lower right
Inscribed below mount garden scene
1933
Storm (Ibiza) c. 1933
Watercolour & gouache,
40 x 52 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1933
Terrace Garden, Ibiza
Watercolour & gouache on paper, 54 x 39 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1934
Ibiza
Watercolour & gouache,
49 x 37 cm
Signed & dated 1934
Inscribed To Eve from Frances Hodgkins 10.10.34
1934
The Weir, Braford-on-Tone
Oil on canvas, 59 x 85.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1930-35
House in the Countryside
Watercolour, 63 x 45 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left
1935
Spanish Landscape
Watercolour, 37 x 48.5 cm
Signed lower right
Inscribed No. 12 Spanish Landscape
1935
Pumpkins
Collotype printed 1952, 52 x 70 cm
Published by Ganymed, 1952 from the 1935 gouache
c.1936
Middle Mill, Solva
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
1936
Pergola c. 1936
Gouache on paper,
72 x 53 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1936
Marrows and Peppers, Tossa
Gouache on paper, 51 x 72 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left Titled No. 3 Marrows
1937
Still Life, Arrangement of Jugs
Watercolour & gouache, 46 x 61 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right
1937
Methodist Chapel
Gouache, 48 x 63 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left
1938
Arrangement of Jugs
Lithograph, 45 x 60 cm
Signed lower right
1938
Houses and Outhouses, Purbeck
Oil on canvas, 80 x 115 cm
Signed lower left
1938
Arrangement of Jugs
Lithograph, 45 x 60 cm
Signed lower right
1939
River Tone, Somerset
Watercolour & gouache, 53.5 x 37cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left
1941
The Corner of the Woods
Gouache, 40 x 51.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins & dated 1941 lower centre
1942
Welsh Emblem
Gouache on paper, 37 x 54 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins & dated 1942 lower right
1943
The Farm Pond
Gouache on paper, 47 x 66.5 cm
Signed & dated 1943
1943
The Water Mill
Gouache, 50 x 38.5 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower left & dated 1943
1944
Country Colour, Purbeck
Gouache on paper, 50 x 65 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins & dated 1944 lower right
1945
Corfe Castle Village
Watercolour and gouache, 44 x 60 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins & dated 1945 lower left
Titled on mount No. 2 Corfe Castle and To Corfe Castle Titled verso No. 2 Corfe Castle Village
1945
Christmas Tree
Oil on canvas, 127 x 101.6 cm
Signed Frances Hodgkins lower right