Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) was an British painter, born in Purley Lodge, Purley-on-Thames near Pangbourne, Berkshire.
Although he began with oil painting, most of his best known works were highly detailed still lifes executed in tempera.
Curwen Eliot Hodgkin was born on 19 June 1905, the only son of Charles Ernest Hodgkin and of his wife Alice Jane (née Brooke). The Hodgkins were a Quaker family and were related to Roger Fry. Eliot, a cousin of the abstract painter Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) was educated at Harrow School from 1919-1923.