Henry George Hine

Henry George Hine (15 August 1811–16 March 1895) was an English landscape-painter and comic illustrator.

Life

Born at Brighton, Sussex, on 15 August 1811, he was the youngest son of William Hine, from Hampshire, by his marriage with Mary Roffey. His father was at one time coachman to Hester Thrale, 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.

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 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. After a time he concentrated again on landscape painting. 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.