Hutchinson left Nova Scotia at age 14, as a
cabin boy.[3] He studied painting in London at the
Royal Academy (1880–1885) and later painted portraits and created illustrations and cartoons for numerous publications such as the Illustrated London News. At the age of 44, he returned to Nova Scotia for a year in 1896 and taught painting.[2]
By the 1910s and 1920s, Hutchinson appears to have been living in retirement in
Clacton-on-Sea,
Essex.[4]
^Lilian Falk. "George Hutchinson, a Canadian Illustrator of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island," Canadian Children’s Literature (now Jeunesse Journal), Vol., 25:4, No. 96, 1999.
Caricatures of the Month: George Hutchinson, London: Review of Reviews, 1892.
Archibald MacMechan. "His prototype is George Hutchinson, a Folly Village boy, whose Father was master of a small vessel and was lost at sea".
Acadiensis, Vol. 6. 1906.
Lilian Falk. George Hutchinson’s illustrating career. Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society Journal in Vol. 9, 2006.
Lilian Falk. "George Hutchinson, a Canadian Illustrator of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island," Canadian Children’s Literature (now Jeunesse Journal), Vol., 25:4, No. 96, 1999.
Lillian Falk. The Master: Reclaiming Zangwill's Only Künstlerroman. English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920;2001, Vol. 44 Issue 3, p275, June 2001