Samuel Hill b. c.1790

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Sketcher, naval officer, public servant and settler, Hill was born in England and lived in Van Diemen's Land from 1823 to 1846. He is thought to have been the first in the colony to use a camera obscura for drawing.
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Citations

  • Chapman, P. (ed.) (1985), 'The Diaries and Letters of G.T.W.B. Boyes, volume 1, 1820-1832’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1966), 'Campbell Town Tasmania’, National Trust of Australia—Historical Committee, Sydney, NSW.

  • O’Byrne, W. (1849), 'A Naval Biographical Dictionary’, London, England, UK.

  • Plomley, N.J.B. (1966), 'Friendly Mission—The Tasmanian Journal and Papers of George Augustus Robinson, 1829-1834’, Kingsgrove, NSW.

  • 'G.T.W.B. Boyes Diaries 1820-1847’, Royal Society of Tasmania Archives, Tas.

  • Correspondence file, Archives Office of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.

Initial data sources

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

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