Henry George Hine (1811–1895) 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. Ebenezer Landells engaged Hine as a contributor to Punch, 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. 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 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 from 1856 to 1868, and in Hampstead 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, Hampstead, on 16 March 1895. He was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery. Works Hine's