George Wylie Hutchinson (1852–1942) was a painter and leading illustrator in Britain and was from Great Village, Nova Scotia, Canada. He illustrated the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Hall Caine, Robert Louis Stevenson and Israel Zangwill. He inspired the poem "Large Bad Picture" and "Poem", both by Elizabeth Bishop, his great grand niece. Hutchinson was a contributor to and subject of Israel Zangwill's novel The Master (1895), with whom he was a close friend. By the 1910s and 1920s, Hutchinson appears to have been living in retirement in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.