(1769 - 1844)
Robert Hills was based in London. He trained under the painter and drawing master John Alexander Gresse. Hills exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution, both in London. He also became a founder member of the Old Water Colour Society and was the Society’s first Secretary, and later Treasurer. He occasionally collaborated on works, painting animals for fellow artists George Barret the Younger, George Fennell Robson and William Henry Pyne. In 1815, Hills visited Waterloo a month after the famous battle, before travelling through Holland and Flanders. He also made several sketching tours through Britain. He painted a number of snow scenes, as well as numerous idealised farm scenes dominated by thatched agricultural buildings.
