Robert Hills
(b Islington [now in London],
26 June 1769; d London, 14 May 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, which number over a
thousand. He worked mostly in
watercolour ( at the Fitzwilliam )but
also occasionally in oils.
These are from
1797-1816 from his etchings of
quadrapeds released as folio and as
books in 11 parts in 3 volumes Vol I:
Cattle: 200 figures on 105 plates.
Dogs: 55 figures on 25 plates. Pigs: 36
figures on 16 plates. Vol II: Sheep:
100 figures on 44 plates. Asses &
Mules: 79 figures on 45 plates. Cattle
in groups: 95 figures on 54 plates. Vol
III: Fallow deer: 80 figures on 53
plates. Red deer: 68 figures on 45
plates. Roe deer: 13 figures on 9
plates. Goats: 8 figures on 4 plates.
Horses: 49 figures on 33 plates.. 783
FIGURES ON 433 PLATES IN TOTAL.
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