Henry George Hine R.I (1811-1895) - Framed Watercolour Honey, I'm Home!

Description

This humorous watercolour by Henry George Hine R.I (1811-1895), depicts an elderly gentleman returning home to his displeased wife. The gentleman looks jolly in his step before noticing his other half resting in frustration on the cottage fence. Even the little black terrier looks to be holding back from arriving home. The artist has signed the watercolour to the lower left and the work has been well presented in a slim gilt frame with a new card mount. On paper.

Condition

The condition is typical for a picture of this age including some discolouration to the watercolour and light wear to the gilt frame.

Size

29.5 x 37.5cm (11.6" x 14.8")
Framed Size: 47 x 55.5cm (18.5" x 21.9")

Artist Biography

Henry George Hine (1811-1895) was an English landscape-painter and comic illustrator born in Brighton, Sussex. He taught himself to draw and paint, and was encouraged by a neighbouring vicar who had watercolours by Copley Fielding. Hine painted several seascapes and coastal scenes in Sussex, and then went to London, where he was an apprentice draughtsman to Henry Meyer. After he left Meyer, Hine went to Rouen and remained there for about two years. He returned, first to Brighton, then to London, where he became a professional wood engraver. In 1841, Hine extended his practice to drawing on the wood for illustrated journals.
In 1863, Hine was elected an associate of the Institute of Painters in Watercolours. He was elected a full member in 1864, and exhibited in the following year two Dorset subjects. From that time onward 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. Several of his watercolours were exhibited at the Institute in the year of his death, which took place at Rosslyn Hill, Hampstead, on 16 March 1895.
Hine's style was based on that of Copley Fielding. Between 1830 and 1851, he was contributing to several London exhibitions. He sent six pictures to the Royal Academy and twelve to the Suffolk Street Gallery. In 1856 he had three watercolours at Suffolk Street, and in 1859 an oil painting, 'Smugglers waiting for a Lugger', attracted attention at the Academy.