HINE, Harry (1845-1941)

1845 - 1941

Henry William Hine was born at St Pancras, London on 27 February 1845, son of Henry George Hine, an illustrator on 'Punch' and 'Illustrated London News', and his wife Mary Ann Eliza née Egerton (1817-25 July 1901), who married at Kennington, London on 13 November 1840. Harry was educated at North London Collegiate and Philological School and was a mate in the merchant navy but by 1871, a 26-year-old general draughtsman, living at 26 Park Road, Hampstead, London with his parents, 59-year-old Henry, a landscape painter, and 54-year-old Mary, born at Finsbury, London and his seven siblings, including 29 year old Mary Esther (1842-1872), a figure painter, and 19 year old William Egerton (1851-1926), a clerk, all born at St Pancras. Harry, as he was known, studied at Accrington School of Art, the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art and Académie Julien in Paris. A landscape painter and elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1879 and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1883. He married at St Saviour's Church, Haverstock Hill, London on 25 June 1874, Victoria Susanna Hine née Colkett, and in 1881, still as Henry, living at Holywell Hill, St Albans, Hertfordshire with his wife Victoria. He exhibited at the Royal Academy also showing at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Dudley Gallery; Dowdeswell Gallery; Fine Art Society; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery; Leicester Galleries; Manchester City Art Gallery; New Gallery; two water colours at the Royal Society of British Artists, in 1875 ‘Sea Coast, Sussex’ and in 1884 ‘Between Amalfie and Salerno’; Royal Hibernian Academy, and over 150 works at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Society of British Artists and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, from Botesdale, Suffolk in 1906. In 1891, now Harry, was still living in St Albans with his wife and was still there in 1901 but by 1911, as William Henry, had moved Pulborough House, Botesdale, Suffolk, a 66-year-old landscape painter with his 70-year-old wife Victoria Susanna, a painter & etcher, and a sister-in-law 75-year-old Emily Louisa Colkett, and kept a servant. As Henry William otherwise Harry Hine, he died at Pulborough House, Botesdale on 20 October 1941, aged 97. He signed his works 'Harry Hine'.

Royal Academy Exhibits
from 24 Park Road, Haverstock Hill, London
1873 791 At Leigh, Essex
1874 819 Hill of Howth near Dublin
         825 Old Eastbourne, Sussex
from 4 Steele Terrace, Haverstock Hill
1875 646 Old Place, Pulborough
         697 Widow Ray, Beds.
         775 Midhurst, Sussex
from Verulum Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire
1877 679 St Albans Abbey
1878 740 Durham Cathedral
from 27 Holywell Hill, St Albans
1892 1209 Mount Orgueil, Jersey - watercolour
from Stevenage, Hertfordshire
1897 1303 Lincoln Minster, from the Lindum Road - watercolour

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Works by This Artist