George Elgar Hicks

1824–1914

George Elgar Hicks, ‘Woman’s Mission: Companion of Manhood’ 1863
Woman’s Mission: Companion of Manhood 1863
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Walk Through British Art: 1840

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Biography

George Elgar Hicks (13 March 1824 – 1914) was an English painter during the Victorian era. He is best known for his large genre paintings, which emulate William Powell Frith in style, but was also a society portraitist.

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Victorian / Genre

Artworks

George Elgar Hicks, ‘Woman’s Mission: Companion of Manhood’ 1863

George Elgar Hicks Woman’s Mission: Companion of Manhood

1863
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
George Elgar Hicks, ‘Woman’s Mission: Comfort of Old Age’ 1862

George Elgar Hicks Woman’s Mission: Comfort of Old Age

1862
On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art

Features

George Elgar Hicks Sketch for Woman’s Mission: Guide of Childhood 1862–3

George Elgar Hicks’s Woman’s Mission and the Apotheosis of the Domestic

Kendall Smaling Wood

Tracing the evolution of the domestic in English cultural discourse over the first half of the nineteenth century, this paper ...

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