John Hollins

John Hollins (1 June 1798 – 7 March 1855) was a London-based portraitist. His works are in the National Portrait Gallery and elsewhere. Hollins' painting on the subject of planning a record breaking balloon trip includes the three balloonists Robert Hollond, Thomas Monck Mason and Charles Green and an image of Hollins himself. and his uncle William was an architect and sculptor.

Hollins moved to London for a few years in his mid twenties earning his living creating portraits in oils and the occasional miniature. In 1825 he became friends with the future Lord Wenlock, then Sir Robert Lawley. There are six people in the painting, three of them are those who made the journey, Hollond, Green and Monck Mason; the others were Walter Prideaux, William Milbourne James (who became an eminent judge) and Hollins himself.

Selected works Portrait of Baron Tenterden A Consultation prior to the Aerial Voyage to Weilburgh, 1836 Incendio de Borgo, after Raphael