Nathaniel The Younger Hone - Artist Info

About Nathaniel The Younger Hone

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    Nathaniel Hone the Younger RHA (1831-1917)

    The famous exponent of landscape painting, Nathaniel Hone was born in Dublin to a family of great artistic renown. He was the great grand-nephew of Nathianiel Hone the Elder (1718-1784), and related to the portrait painters Horace Hone (1756-1825) and John Camillus Hone (1759-1836), as well as the future painter and stained glass artist Evie Hone (1894-1955). Nathaniel Hone started his career as a railway engineer, but at 21 determined to become a professional painter.

    In 1853, he began his art studies in Paris, and he remained in France for seventeen years. During his first four years he was taught drawing and figure drawing by Yvon and Thomas Couture (1815-1879) and studied the huma...

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