Henry George Hine (1811–1895) was an English landscape-painter and comic illustrator.
Life
Born at
Brighton
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,
Sussex
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, on 15 August 1811, he was the youngest son of William Hine, from
Hampshire
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, by his marriage with Mary Roffey. His father was at one time coachman to
Hester Thrale
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (née Salusbury; later Piozzi; 27 January 1741 or 16 January 1740 – 2 May 1821),Contemporary records, which used the Julian calendar and the Annunciation Style of enumerating years, recorded her birth as 16 January ...
, and then a coachmaster in Brighton. He taught himself to draw and paint, and was encouraged by a neighbouring vicar who had water-colours by
Copley Fielding
Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding (22 November 1787 – 3 March 1855), commonly called Copley Fielding, was an English painter born in Sowerby, near Halifax, and famous for his watercolour landscapes. At an early age Fielding became a pup ...
.
Hine painted for some years in Sussex on sea-pieces and coastal scenes, then went to London and was apprenticed as a draughtsman to
Henry Meyer. On leaving Meyer he went to
Rouen
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and remained there about two years. He returned, first to Brighton, then to London, where he became a professional wood engraver, and in 1841 extended his practice to drawing on the wood for illustrated journals.
Ebenezer Landells
Ebenezer Landells (Newcastle 1808 – 1 October 1860 London) was a British wood-engraver, illustrator, and magazine proprietor.
Life
Born in Newcastle, Landells was apprenticed to the wood-engraver Thomas Bewick.
In 1829 he moved to London, ...
engaged Hine as a contributor to ''
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'', the first number of which had been published on 17 July 1841. Hine's first contribution appeared in September, and he continued to work for ''Punch'' till 1844. He and William Newman were the main regular artists on the staff, before
John Leech took the lead. At the end of 1844 Hine withdrew from the staff of ''Punch'' and contributed to several short-lived rival publications (''
Puck'', ''The Great Gun'', ''Joe Miller the Younger'', and ''The Man in the Moon'') and the ''
Illustrated London News
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''. In The Man in the Moon he created a comic strip, ''Mr. Crindle's Rapid Career Upon Town'' (1847), scripted by journalist Albert Smith. After a time he concentrated again on landscape painting.
In 1863 Hine was elected an associate of the
Institute of Painters in Water-colours, and exhibited ''St. Paul's from Fleet Street''. He was elected a full member in 1864, and exhibited in the following year two
Dorset
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subjects. From that time onwards he was a regular contributor to the exhibitions at the Institute, of which he was the vice-president from 1888 to 1895.
After his marriage in 1840, Hine spent most of his life in London or the northern suburbs; he lived in
Highgate
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from 1856 to 1868, and in
Hampstead
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from 1868 for the rest of his life. Several of his water-colours were exhibited at the Institute in the year of his death, which took place at
Rosslyn Hill
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, Hampstead, on 16 March 1895. He was buried on the western side of
Highgate Cemetery
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.
Works
Hine's style was based on that of Copley Fielding. By 1830, from Brighton, he contributed to London exhibitions, sending six pictures to the
Royal Academy
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and 12 to the
Suffolk Street Gallery
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History
The RBA commenced with twenty-seven members, and took until 1876 to reach fif ...
between then and 1851. In 1856 he had three water-colours at Suffolk Street, and in 1859 an oil painting, ''Smugglers waiting for a Lugger'', attracted attention at the Academy.
Hine contributed small black comic sketches and cartoons to ''Punch''. He also illustrated the first ''Punch's Almanac''. A notable contribution was the sheet of ''Anti-Graham Wafers'', an attack upon the home secretary,
Sir James Robert Graham, who had private correspondence opened in 1844.
Hine's pictures included: ''Lewes from the Town Mill'', ''On the Downs near Lewes'', ''Swanage Bay'', ''Cliffs at Cuckmere'', ''In Cowdray Park'', ''Haymaking'', ''Corfe Castle'', ''Moonlight, Shoreham'', and ''Fittleworth Common''. Some of these were sent in 1878 to the
Paris Exhibition
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.
Family
In 1840 Hine married Mary Ann Eliza, daughter of James Egerton, a coach-master.
[Susie Douglas, Borders Ancestry https://www.bordersancestry.com/blog/london-calling-cordwainers-coachmen-artists] They had a family of eleven daughters and four sons. Two of his sons were Harry Hine, a member of the Institute of Painters in Water-colours, and William Egerton Hine, art master at
Harrow School
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Notes
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References
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Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
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1811 births
1895 deaths
Burials at Highgate Cemetery
Artists from Brighton
English comics artists
English landscape painters
English watercolourists
English illustrators
Punch (magazine) cartoonists
19th-century English painters
English male painters
19th-century English male artists