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Robert Hills (26 June 1769 – 14 May 1844) was an English painter and etcher.
Hills was born in 
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 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.
External links and references
* Engraving by Edward Francis Finden 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