Henry George Hine

Born at Brighton, Sussex, on 15 August 1811, he was the youngest son of William Hine, from Hampshire, by his marriage with Mary Roffey.

[1] 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.

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.

By 1830, from Brighton, he contributed to London exhibitions, sending six pictures to the Royal Academy and 12 to the Suffolk Street Gallery between then and 1851.

In 1856 he had three water-colours at Suffolk Street, and in 1859 an oil painting, Smugglers waiting for a Lugger, attracted attention at the Academy.

A notable contribution was the sheet of Anti-Graham Wafers, an attack upon the home secretary, Sir James Robert Graham, who had private correspondence opened in 1844.