William Haines (artist)

Two years after that disaster he was with Thew, the engraver, at Northaw, Hertfordshire, where, when sufficiently proficient, he worked with Scriven and others on the Boydell-Shakespeare plates.

In 1800 he went to the Cape of Good Hope; his ship, outsailed by the convoy, successfully resisting on the voyage an attack by a French privateer.

At Cape Town and in excursions up the country he made numerous drawings (Caffres, Hottentots, &c.), resembling Catlin's later American pictures.

From the Cape he passed to Philadelphia, where he engraved a number of book illustrations (‘Johnson's Poets,’ ‘Bradford's British Classics,’ &c.) and some portraits (Drs.

Hayley (for whose ‘Life of Romney’ he had engraved a plate) warmly befriended him, and on his recommendation he proceeded (after his Chichester engagements were concluded) to Southampton, but with little result.