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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- John Alexander Gresse Student
Artworks by this artist (74 total)
- Flock of Sheep after 1794
- The children’s picnic
- Carting Hops and Other Studies
- Orchard Trees at Under River near Knole ca. 1826
- Trees at Beddington possibly c. 1805
- A Stag 1802
- Trees and Barns in Ashstead Park, Surrey
- Farm Buildings in the Vaux, Jersey ca. 1832
- Reflections in a Wooded Pool
- The Wave
- Tree Study
- A Country Lane with Haystack and Gate
- Beech Trees
- Study of Cows with Calf
- A Cow Byre
- Between Netley Heath and Albury
- Deer and their Young 1812
- St. Stephen’s Churchyard, Jersey, with the Tomb of the Artist’s Brother after 1828
- Studies of Farmhouses by a Gate, Ploughing and Harrows
- A Farm at Eton