Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue

Illustrator and painter in oils and watercolours; born 30 December 1848 in London, brother of illustrator Everard Hopkins and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. Studied at Royal Academy Schools 1872; exh. RA 1875–1925; black-and-white work for the Illustrated London News 1872–98, the Graphic 1874–86, and Punch 1893–1902; book illustrations for Thomas Hardy (The Return of the Native, 1878) and Wilkie Collins; Associate, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colour 1877, Member, RWS 1896; died 10[1] or 16[2] September 1930, in Hampstead, London.

Carol Blackett-Ord

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