Background
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.
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Henry Hine
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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.
Career
He taught himself to draw and paint, and was encouraged by a neighbouring vicar who had water-colours by Copley Fielding. 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.
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 Saint 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. 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. In 1840 Hine married Mary Ann, daughter of John Egerton, a coach-master.
