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 early commissions - although he also worked as a panorama painter and a scene painter in the theater. In 1829, two of his pictures were purchased by an Admiral and through this connection eventually he secured the patronage of King William IV and Queen Adelaide who bought four of his paintings in 1831-32.