page_title: Frank Hyde (painter)
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Frank Hyde (painter) / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Steps at Capri
context_page_description: Frank Hyde was a British portrait and figure painter. He was a war artist and portrait painter, best known for his works of Capri. He also created comic characters for greeting cards for Raphael Tuck.
context_section_description: During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, he served the Royal Engineers as a 1st Lieutenant and then began created illustrations for The Graphic, working as a war artist. Battle of Sedan was depicted by Hyde for The Graphic.
  In the late 1870s, he purchased a villa or the former Santa Teresa monastery at Anacapri on the island of Capri, where he made portraits of local model Rosina Ferrara and became a friend of John Singer Sargent. In 1914, he wrote the article Island of the Sirens about Capri for the International Studio about the allure of the people, culture, and island for artists over the years. It was one of many travel articles written by Hyde.
  He is likely best known for his paintings of Ferrara and the one entitled Capri. In the late 1880s, he made the painting The Eton Boy.
  During World War I, Hyde was a Captain and made paintings of the war, including First Battalion, the Royal West Kent, at Neuve Chapelle, 1914. An exhibit about the war, "Coming Home: Conflict & Care", at Maidstone Museum has shown three of his paintings, including Arrival of a Convoy of Wounded Soldiers at Maidstone East and Trones Wood, about the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment.
  His painting, Bugler Timmins RM, The Boy Hero, about 14-year-old World War I hero Charles Timmins of HMS Chatham, in the collection of Napier Road School is on loan to the Historic Dockyard in Chatham. Tug of War (1891) is in the collection of the Salford Museum and Art Gallery of Manchester. Capri Coastal Scene with Some Figures and  Arrival of a Convoy of Wounded Soldiers at Maidstone East (1917) and in the collection of Maidstone Museum.
caption: Steps at Capri
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