Nathaniel Hone the Younger - Rock and the Sea

Nathaniel Hone the Younger (1831–1917) was a member of a wealthy landed family with artistic propensities, and was the great grand-nephew of another Nathaniel Hone (“the Elder”), who lived from 1718 to 1784. 3, rue Fleurus. 10, rue des Saints Pères. After studying as an engineer at Trinity College, Hone worked for a time on the Midland Great Western Railway and then considered emigration to South America. Instead, in the early 1850s, he opted to study art in Paris, thus trailblazing a route to the French capital that other Irish artists were to follow later in the century.