George Elgar Hicks

1824–1914

In Tate Britain

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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Artworks

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

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art

Features

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 …