Nathaniel Hone RHA

Nathanial Hone ‘The Younger’ (1831-1917), great-grand-nephew of accomplished artist Nathanial Hone ‘The Elder’, began his career as a railway engineer. However, at 21 he decided to pursue employment as a professional painter and so travelled to Paris to be educated. Studying first about drawing and the human form under Yvon and Thomas Couture, he later travelled to Barbizon to learn about landscape painting where he became heavily influenced by impressionist artists Gustav Courbet and Camille Corot.

He lived in France for 17 years before returning to Ireland, living in Dublin, where he regularly exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). Hone was made a full member of the RHA (1880) and a Professor of Painting at the RHA (1894) with much of his later work focusing on landscapes. After his death, his entire collection was left to the National Gallery of Ireland, however they accepted only a portion of this and so the remainder has become a part of various private and public collections.