Thomas Hill (1661–1734) was a British portrait painter.

Biography

Hill was born in 1661, first learned drawing from William Faithorne the elder, the engraver. He painted numerous portraits at the beginning of the eighteenth century, some of which were engraved in mezzotint by John Smith and others. Among them were George Hooper, bishop of Bath and Wells, Baron de Ginkel, Sir Henry Goodricke, bart., Lady Goodricke, and a group of three children of the Duke of Leeds. He painted three portraits of

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: one is in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; another, dated 18 December 1711, is in the collection of the Society of Antiquaries, ‘painted in a peculiarly soft and ornamental manner;’ and a third, painted in 1717, is in the

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. Hill died at

Mitcham Mitcham is an area within the London Borough of Merton in South London, England. It is centred southwest of Charing Cross. Originally a village in the county of Surrey, today it is mainly a residential suburb, and includes Mitcham Common. It ...

in 1734.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hill, Thomas 1661 births 1734 deaths 17th-century English painters 18th-century British painters British male painters