Nathaniel Hill (artist)

Nathaniel Hill (1861–1934) was an Irish impressionist painter.

For other uses, see Nathaniel Hill (disambiguation).

Life

Hill was born in Drogheda, Ireland. From 1877 to 1880 he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, where he was a contemporary of Roderic O'Conor, Walter Osborne, and Joseph Malachy Kavanagh. During the 1880s he made visits to Brittany in the company of Osborne and O'Conor.[1] He painted rural scenes, as well as peasants and country imagery. A fine example of his portrait style - Hill's late 19th Century portrait of the brewer and banker Thomas Plunkett Cairnes - is held at the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.[2][3] This work is one of his portraits of prominent Drogheda citizens of that period.

Hill died at Betws-y-Coed, North Wales, in 1930.[2]

Notes and references
  1. "GOOSE GIRL IN A BRETTON FARMYARD". Highlanes Gallery. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  2. "PORTRAIT OF THOMAS PLUNKETT CAIRNES". Highlanes Gallery. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  3. The painting is on long-term loan from the Cairnes Trust.

Sources
  • "Nathaniel Hill (1861-1934)", 29 January 2000. <http://go.to/Irish> Retrieved 2 August 2006.
  • "The Irish Impressionists, Irish Artists in France and Belgium 1850-1914". Julian Campbell. National Gallery of Ireland. 1984
  • "Irish Art from Nathaniel Hone to Nano Reid: The Drogheda Municipal Art Collection in Context". Dr Denise Ferran. Highlanes Gallery (Drogheda). 2006


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