Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hinchliff, John Elley
HINCHLIFF, JOHN ELLEY (1777–1867), sculptor, born in 1777, became the chief assistant in the studio of John Flaxman, R.A. [q. v.], and worked in that capacity for about twenty years. After Flaxman's death in 1826 he completed some of his unfinished works, notably the statues of the Marquis of Hastings at Calcutta, and of John Philip Kemble in Westminster Abbey. In 1814 he exhibited at the Royal Academy a group of ‘Christian and Apollyon,’ in 1815 another of ‘Leonidas,’ followed in subsequent years by other works of the same nature, ‘Menelaus and Paris,’ ‘Theseus and Hippodamia,’ &c. He executed a few busts, including one of Flaxman, which he exhibited at the British Institution in 1849. He was mainly occupied, however, in executing mural tablets and other sepulchral monuments. Hinchliff lived for many years in Mornington Place, Hampstead Road, where he died at the close of 1867, in his ninety-first year.
Hinchliff, John James (1805–1875), engraver, son of the above, adopted the profession of engraving, and attained some note by his illustrations to Beattie's ‘Castles and Abbeys of England,’ Gastineau's ‘Picturesque Scenery of Wales,’ &c. He was employed for many years by the hydrographic department of the admiralty, and died at Walton-by-Clevedon, Somerset, in 1875.
[Art Journal, 1868, p. 48; Redgrave's Dict. of Artists; Royal Acad. Catalogues; Clement and Hutton's Artists of the 19th Century.]