George Elgar Hicks was the second son of a wealthy judge. His family lived in the small town of Lymington in the county of Hampshire. His parents wanted the boy to study medicine, so he began to study, but soon found that he had little interest in becoming a doctor. Instead, he was drawn to art and was mainly interested in painting. Therefore he changed at the age of 19 to the art school in Blomsbury and one year later to the Royal Academy of Arts in London. However, his works were at first only moderate and Hicks himself described them as "small and unimportant". At the age of twenty-three George Hicks married his childhood sweetheart Maria Harris. The couple had eight children in quick succession, and that was probably one of the reasons why the artist did not have too much time for art studies, travel, or interaction with other painters. It was not until 10 years later that George Hicks made his breakthrough. His genre painting "Horch, the lark sings at the Gate of Heaven" received some public attention, as did the painting "Divident Day at the Bank of England" and a self-portrait of the painter, which he created in 1862.
George Elgar Hicks painted many large-format pictures showing scenes from the normal everyday life of the English, such as "Fish Market in Billingsgate", "The Post Office", "The Change of Apartment", "Return from Gleaning", "The Farm Girl", "The Fisherman's Wife and the Hunter's Daughter" and "Bad Luck Day". George Elgar Hicks was quite successful. But he did not belong to the great painters of England and his critics considered his paintings to be very deeply felt, interesting in subject matter and brilliant in colour, but often somewhat fleeting in execution and not always completely flawless. He emulated his great model William Powell Frith, a well-known genre painter of his time, but without quite reaching him.
In his later years, when genre painting no longer interested people so much, Hicks concentrated on historical paintings and portraits. After the death of his wife Marie in 1891, he married a second time and retired. George Elgar Hicks was 90 years old.
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.jpg "At Evening Time- Study, 1864 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Tick, Tick, Tick - a girl sitting on her mother")
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.jpg "Portrait of Adelaide Maria Guinness, Reclining on a Sofa in a Conservatory by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Parenthood, 1872 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "A Sketch for The General Post Office, One Minute to Six by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Portrait of a Lady in a White Dress by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Children of Sir Hussey Vivian at the Seaside by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Lament of Jephthah")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Duchess of St. Albans, with her Son, 1875 by George Elgar Hicks")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-79095).jpg "The Sinews of Old England by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Evening Tales by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Return Home by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "An Infant Orphan Election at the London Tavern, Polling, 1865 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Birthday Present by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Life")
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.jpg "Infant Orphan Election at the London Tavern, Polling by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Maidenhood by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "A Summer Rose, 1910 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The General Post Office. One Minute to Six by George Elgar Hicks")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1106285).jpg "Five Children Playing in the Forest by George Elgar Hicks")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-203323).jpg "Good Night by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Pat-a-cake by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Barleyfield by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "An Infant Orphan Election at the London Tavern, 1865 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Changing Homes, 1862 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Mrs. Hicks, Mary, Rosa and Elgar by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Hark! Hark! The Lark at Heaven")
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.jpg "Head of a Woman by George Elgar Hicks")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1172388).jpg "Portrait of a Lady by George Elgar Hicks")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-109409).jpg "Three Young Cricketers, c.1883 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Young Frederick Asleep at Last by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Lady Edith Amelia Ward, Daughter of the 1st Earl of Dudley by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Orphans by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Self Portrait, 1846 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Wedding Breakfast by George Elgar Hicks")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-59045).jpg "Portrait of Adelaide Maria, Countess of Iveagh (copy) by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Exile of Siberia in Sight of St Petersburg by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Last Shilling by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Wedding Breakfast, 1862 by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Fair Haymaker by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Croquet Player by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Before the Magistrates by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Mother and Child by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "The Flower Girl by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Croquet by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Dead Goldfinch by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Self-Portrait by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Eltham High Street by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "An Afternoon Nap by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Gleaning by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Will He Do It by George Elgar Hicks")
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.jpg "Family Accounts by George Elgar Hicks")
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