The Scottish painter and arts activist collaborated with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland. He became learned in lithography, and produced an album of landscape views titled "Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire". He and other artists established a Scottish Academy in 1829 with the assistance of his close friend Henry Cockburn, provided illustrations to Walter Scott and Robert Burns.
He recorded the dramatic scene when 400 ministers walked out of the Church of Scotland to subsequently find the Free Church of Scotland using a new found technique called "photography" to claim likenesses of the ministers. These were used by Hill in his painting "The Disruption of 1843".
In partnership with Robert Adamson Hill produced a number of portraits of the well-known in Scotland, including Hugh Miller. Their partnership produced over 3000 Calotype prints which can fade over time if exposed to light.
After finishing "The Disruption" in 1866, he received wide acclaim even though most of those pictured had already died. He was greatly affected by his daughter's death and illness caused him to be less active. He is portrayed in a bust sculpted by his second wife, Amelia R Paton.
He recorded the dramatic scene when 400 ministers walked out of the Church of Scotland to subsequently find the Free Church of Scotland using a new found technique called "photography" to claim likenesses of the ministers. These were used by Hill in his painting "The Disruption of 1843".
In partnership with Robert Adamson Hill produced a number of portraits of the well-known in Scotland, including Hugh Miller. Their partnership produced over 3000 Calotype prints which can fade over time if exposed to light.
After finishing "The Disruption" in 1866, he received wide acclaim even though most of those pictured had already died. He was greatly affected by his daughter's death and illness caused him to be less active. He is portrayed in a bust sculpted by his second wife, Amelia R Paton.
The Scottish painter and arts activist collaborated with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland. He became learned in lithography, and produced an album of landscape views titled "Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire". He and other artists established a Scottish Academy in 1829 with the assistance of his close friend Henry Cockburn, provided illustrations to Walter Scott and Robert Burns.
He recorded the dramatic scene when 400 ministers walked out of the Church of Scotland to subsequently find the Free Church of Scotland using a new found technique called "photography" to claim likenesses of the ministers. These were used by Hill in his painting "The Disruption of 1843".
In partnership with Robert Adamson Hill produced a number of portraits of the well-known in Scotland, including Hugh Miller. Their partnership produced over 3000 Calotype prints which can fade over time if exposed to light.
After finishing "The Disruption" in 1866, he received wide acclaim even though most of those pictured had already died. He was greatly affected by his daughter's death and illness caused him to be less active. He is portrayed in a bust sculpted by his second wife, Amelia R Paton.
He recorded the dramatic scene when 400 ministers walked out of the Church of Scotland to subsequently find the Free Church of Scotland using a new found technique called "photography" to claim likenesses of the ministers. These were used by Hill in his painting "The Disruption of 1843".
In partnership with Robert Adamson Hill produced a number of portraits of the well-known in Scotland, including Hugh Miller. Their partnership produced over 3000 Calotype prints which can fade over time if exposed to light.
After finishing "The Disruption" in 1866, he received wide acclaim even though most of those pictured had already died. He was greatly affected by his daughter's death and illness caused him to be less active. He is portrayed in a bust sculpted by his second wife, Amelia R Paton.
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DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL RSA
Born 1802, died 1870. For 43 years secretary to the Royal Scottish Academy. He was a man of upright noble and unselfish character who sacrificed much for the advancement of the Fine Arts of his country.
AMELIA ROBERTSON PATON, Sculptor, born 1820, died 1904.
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