Artist
Robert Hills
British, 1769–1844
Robert Hills was a British British Romanticism artist. 22 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Robert Hills was born in Islington.
Robert Hills (26 June 1769 – 14 May 1844) 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.
Works by Robert Hills
Trees at Beddington
Five Sheep
Studies of Sheep
Studies of Cattle
Reflections in a Wooded Pool
Cattle Resting
Herdsman with Cattle
Cows and Sheep
Woodland Glade with Cattle
Landscape with Horses and Sheep
Cows and sheep
Landscape with two horses
Ox Rubbing Itself Against Rails
Woodland Road with Ox-waggon
The Ox Team
Stags in Knole Park, near Sevenoaks, Kent
The Broken Plough
Landscape with drover and cattle
Farmyard with Cattle
Country road leading from a wood, man driving a flock of sheep
A Group of Trees in Heathland
Stags in Knole Park, Kent
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