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Robert Hills BIOGRAPHY
1769 Islington, London England - 1844 London, England. Known for: Bucolic landscape, rural genre and animal painting, etching.
Robert Hills was born in Islington. He initially studied under John Alexander Gresse, then enrolled at the London Royal Academy of Arts in 1788. He primarily painted rural scenes, particularly farm... Read full biography
Robert Hills was born in Islington. He initially studied under John Alexander Gresse, then enrolled at the London Royal Academy of Arts in 1788. He primarily painted rural scenes, particularly farm animals. A number of his renderings can now be found at the British Museum. Hills was known to draw... Read full biography
Robert Hills was born in Islington. He initially studied under John Alexander Gresse, then enrolled at the London Royal Academy of Arts in 1788. He primarily painted rural scenes, particularly farm animals. A number of his renderings can now be found at the British Museum. Hills was known to draw animals in works of other artists, such as George Barret, Jr. and George Fennell Robson. He published Sketches in Flanders and Holland (1816), with his own aquatints.
Robert Hills was born in Islington. He initially studied under John Alexander Gresse, then enrolled at the London Royal Academy of Arts in 1788. He primarily painted rural scenes, particularly farm animals. A number of his renderings can now be found at the British Museum. Hills was known to draw animals in works of other artists, such as George Barret, Jr. and George Fennell Robson. He published Sketches in Flanders and Holland (1816), with his own aquatints.
Robert Hills was born in Islington. He initially studied under John Alexander Gresse, then enrolled at the London Royal Academy of Arts in 1788. He primarily painted rural scenes, particularly farm animals. A number of his renderings can now be found at the British Museum. Hills was known to draw animals in works of other artists, such as George Barret, Jr. and George Fennell Robson. He published Sketches in Flanders and Holland (1816), with his own aquatints.
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Robert Hills was born in Islington. He initially studied under John Alexander Gresse, then enrolled at the London Royal Academy of Arts in 1788. He primarily painted rural scenes, particularly farm animals.
A number of his renderings can now be found at the British Museum.
Hills was known to draw animals in works of other artists, such as George Barret, Jr. and George Fennell Robson. He published Sketches in Flanders and Holland (1816), with his own aquatints.