All Robert Hills's oil paintings



ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
26076 A farm yard (mk47) A farm yard (mk47) SPWC 1812 Watercolour 315x430mm

Robert Hills
British Painter, 1769-1844 English painter and etcher. After taking drawing-lessons from John Alexander Gresse (1740-94), he enrolled at the Royal Academy Schools, London, in 1788. Village and rural scenes, and in particular studies of animals, occupied him throughout his working life; his favourite subjects were cattle, sheep, donkeys, pigs and above all deer, which he stalked for the purpose of sketching. As well as making plein-air drawings, Hills carried out careful anatomical studies of animal bones and joints. Between 1798 and 1815 he issued an extensive series of Etchings of Quadrupeds; the British Museum holds the artist's collection of his own etchings . Related Artists to : | BONZI, Pietro Paolo | Johannes Gijsbertusz van Ravenswaay | Willy Baron von Plessen | Vincenzo Carducci | Francesco de mura |