New Forest Hampshire
by Frederick Hines

Research by Sally Banister and Norma Smeaton

Acc No                       181
Artist                           Frederick (Fred) Hines
Artist dates                 1852-c.1928
Medium                       watercolour
Size                             unknown
Date painted               unknown
Donor                          Margaret Jessie Gourlay
​                                    7 St David's Road South, Lytham St Annes
Date donated              25 July 1955

Donated with:   
​Acc No 100   Children of the Jordan Family (Huggins)
Acc No 182   A Lane Near Guildford (Fox)  
​Acc No 183   Haunt of the Wild Duck (Ireland)   

Also by Frederick Hines (Fishing in a Woodland Stream), New Forest, Hampshire
watercolour 75 x 57 cm (22.9 x 22.4 in)
acc. no. 370
​gift from Mr and Mrs Cohen c/o their daughter Nicola Schwartz, St Albans
January 2022 

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ARTIST

Frederick Hines was an artist in the 19th Century. He lived in Essex and London and was the eldest son of John Hines, a tinplate worker. John and his wife, Eliza, had three other children including Theodore Hines, who was also an artist working in a similar style to that of his brother. Frederick married Agnes (born 1870) in 1898 and they had two daughters, Olive Audrey, born 1900, and Mavis Freda, born 1904. The 1901 and 1911 censuses state their address as 11 Parkholme Road, Hackney.

Frederick Hines was a member of the Royal Academy, frequently painting watercolours of figures, animals and rural scenes, which he portrayed in a romantic and sensitive style. He exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and leading London galleries and sold numerous works, often signing his watercolours 'Fred Hines'. He also illustrated many works, including one edition of Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village', along with Ernest Wilson. Some of his illustrations, small vignettes of landscapes, were used as Christmas cards and were described as 'exquisite' in an article in the London Standard of 17 December 1885.

During the artist's lifetime watercolour painting had a surge in popularity;  watercolour sets were portable and therefore more easily transportable to different venues.

PAINTING

This  painting is of the New Forest, Hampshire. The portrait composition focuses your eye to the foreground where a stag and deer are drinking from the water. The tranquil setting is enhanced by the colour and style of the painting, giving the water a calm glass-like quality. This was fairly typical of Frederick Hine's work.

REFERENCES

Wikipedia
Findmypast, England census 1871, 1911
Liveauctioneers.com/catalog/45878
London Standard, 17 December 1885
Benezit Dictionary of Artists