George Hyde Chambers 1803 - 1840, was an English marine painter of some repute. He was a talented draughtsman, watercolorist and painter in oils, often working in a fluent style.

Born in Yorkshire, at the age of 10 he served as a cabin boy on a coasting vessel and was afterwards apprenticed to the master of a brig trading in the Mediterranean and the Baltic. He had an innate talent for art and the ship owner released him from his apprenticeship in order to allow Chambers to devote himself full time to painting.

Chambers worked his way on a trading vessel to London in 1825. His work proved popular with the nautical clientele of the Watermans Arms at Wapping, (the landlord being a friend of his), and won him his ea...