Robert Hills
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Artworks: 74
Painter of rural scenes and farm animals
Robert Hills was an English painter and etcher. Hills was born in Islington. He initially studied under John Alexander Gresse, then enrolled at the 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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Artworks by this artist (74 total)
- Deer and their Young 1812
- Figure Studies; A Farm Worker, Mr. Samuel, the Drawing Master Reclining and Dozing, and a Slight Sketch of a Man in a Hat
- Sketch of a Horse
- Study of Cows with Calf
- Woodland Shadow after 1801
- The Wave
- A Farm at Eton
- A Lane, Great Borside ca. 1833
- Reminiscence of Gainsborough
- The children’s picnic
- Tree Study between 1800 and 1805
- Flock of Sheep after 1794
- Drove of Sheep and Cows
- Studies of Cattle
- A Young Deer 1801
- A Village Snow Scene 1819
- A Wagon With Hops and Two Sketches of Horses
- Carting Hops and Other Studies
- Cattle resting beside farm buildings
- Study of Bracken 1802