Robert Hills
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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Master student
- John Alexander Gresse Student
Artworks by this artist
- The Wood
- A Cow Byre
- A Farm at Eton
- Drove of Sheep and Cows
- Figure Studies; A Farm Worker, Mr. Samuel, the Drawing Master Reclining and Dozing, and a Slight Sketch of a Man in a Hat
- Study of a Holly Tree
- A Village Snow Scene 1819
- A Young Deer 1801
- Orchard Trees at Under River near Knole ca. 1826
- Studies of Haymakers ca. 1807
- Study of Bracken 1802
- Three Donkeys
- Tree Study
- Between Netley Heath and Albury
- Looking Across the Maas from Rotterdam
- A Stag’s Head; three studies
- A Wagon With Hops and Two Sketches of Horses
- Study of Foliage after 1799
- The Shearing
- Reflections in a Wooded Pool