Amelia Robertson Hill, 1820 - 1904. Sculptor
About this artwork
This delicate chalk drawing depicts Amelia Robertson Hill, portrait sculptor and second wife of the painter and photographic pioneer David Octavius Hill. She was also the elder sister of prominent artists Joseph Noel and Waller Hugh Paton. Her earlier works consisted mainly of portraits of family and friends, but her professional career flourished after her marriage, aged forty-two, to D.O. Hill. The couple were prominent members of the Edinburgh social scene and Hill sculpted portrait busts of eminent sitters such as Thomas Carlyle, Sir George Harvey and physicist David Brewster. She also completed a number of public commissions, including memorial statues of David Livingstone in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh, and Robert Burns in Dumfries.
Updated 2021
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artist:Alexander Blaikley (1816 - 1903) Scottish
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title:Amelia Robertson Hill, 1820 - 1904. Sculptor
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date created:About 1863
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materials:Chalk on paper
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measurements:39.90 x 28.00 cm
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credit line:Given by the executors of the artist 1904
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accession number:PG 632
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Alexander Blaikley
Alexander Blaikley
Alexander Blaikley was a painter of portraits and figures, as well as an accomplished silhouettist. Originally from Ulster, his parents moved to Glasgow where his mother ran a workshop for putting embroideries on to muslin. As a small boy, Blaikley was given the task of cutting surplus muslin. He...