Brief Biography-Nathaniel Hone, the Younger, was born in 1831. He was the great-grandnephew of Nathaniel Hone (1718-1784). He studied engineering at Trinity College Dublin and worked on the railways before taking up painting and, in 1853, went to Paris to study. His first master was Adolphe Yvon, a painter of the Napoleonic wars. In 1854. He entered the atelier of Thomas Couture, and after completing his training, he took up landscapes. Barbizon was his next stop, where he became acquainted with all artists. He resided in France for seventeen years, going to Italy for eighteen months before returning to Ireland. Camille Corot, his friend Henri-Joseph Harpignies and Gustav Courbet left an impression on him from his Barbizon days, and he settled mainly into landscape painting in his later years. He became a professor of painting at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1894.