(1858 - 1925)
Landscape painter and illustrator William Hyde was born in 1859 and studied at the Slade School of Art, where he specialised in the printmaking techniques of etching, engraving and mezzotint. He lived in Holborn from 1889, the year he began to show his work at the Royal Academy. By 1905, following his marriage to Kate Rogers, Hyde had moved to Guildford in Surrey. Suffering from depression, Hyde burnt a large proportion of his oil painting and watercolours, with few surviving today. He is best remembered as an illustrator, with works in a wide range of publications, from magazines to major works of literature, including editions of John Milton and Percy Shelley.
