Charles Hill b. 1824

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, engraver and teacher, in, England and arrived in Adelaide in 1854 where he became very influential in the local art scene. Hill specialised in genre and narrative subjects, a type of painting not then common in Australia.

Citations

  • Appleyard, R.G. (January 1967), 'Charles Hill’, National Gallery of South Australia Bulletin, (28/3), .

  • Carroll, A. (1981), 'Graven Images in the Promised Land’, Art Gallery of South Australia catalogue, Adelaide, SA.

  • Information sourced from Appleyard, Ron.

  • Appleyard, R.G. (1981), 'History of the Gallery’, Art and Australia, (19/1).

  • Information sourced from Mackay, Mary.

See also

  • 'Family Group, c.1870, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA'.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870