Robert Hills (26 June 1769 – 14 May 1844) was an English painter and etcher. Robert Hills Fry

Hills was born in

Islington Islington () is a district in the north of Greater London, England, and part of the London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's High Street to Highbury Fields, encompassing the ar ...

. He initially studied under

John Alexander Gresse John Alexander Gresse (1741–1794), was an English painter and drawing-master. Early life Gresse was born in London in 1741. His father was a native of Rolle, on the Lake of Geneva, and owned a small property close to Oxford Street, on which ...

, then enrolled at the

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

in 1788. He primarily painted rural scenes, particularly farm animals. A number of his renderings can now be found at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

. Hills was known to draw animals in works of other artists, such as

George Barret, Jr. George Barret Jr. (1767–1842), sometimes referred to as George Barret the Younger, was an English landscape painter, and a son of the Irish artist George Barret Sr. Life Almost certainly taught by his father, he exhibited at the Royal Acade ...

and

George Fennell Robson George Fennell Robson (1788–1833) was an English watercolour painter. Life One of 23 children of John Robson (1739–1824) by his second wife, Charlotte, eldest daughter of George Fennell, R.N., he was born at Durham, England, Durham in 1788; h ...

. He published ''Sketches in Flanders and Holland'' (1816), with his own aquatints. Plate from Sketches in Flanders and Holland

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* Engraving by

Edward Francis Finden Edward Francis Finden (1791–1857) was a British Engraving, engraver. Life Finden was the younger brother, fellow-pupil, and coadjutor of William Finden, and shared his successes and fortunes. Works Finden executed some separate works, among ...

of the painting with a poetical illustration by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in Forget Me Not annual for 1827. 1769 births 1844 deaths 18th-century English painters English male painters 19th-century English painters Artists from Islington (district) Painters from London 19th-century English male artists 18th-century English male artists {{England-painter-stub