David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
Robert Haldane, 1772 - 1854. Principal of St Andrews University [a]
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About this artwork
Described as a competent mathematician, Haldane was initially appointed to the chair of Mathematics at United College, St Andrews University in 1807. Also a theologian and minister he became the principal of St Marys College and minister of the parish church of St Andrews in 1820. As a moderate in the Church, he regularly came into conflict with the reforming and Free Church principal of United College, Sir David Brewster.
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title:Robert Haldane, 1772 - 1854. Principal of St Andrews University [a]
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date created:1843 - 1847
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materials:Carbon print
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measurements:20.00 x 14.90 cm
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credit line:Elliot Collection, bequeathed 1950
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accession number:PGP HA 1050
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David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill
A painter and a lithographer by training, David Octavius Hill is best remembered for the beauty of the calotypes he and Robert Adamson produced together. Hill was a sociable and kind-hearted man who did much to support the arts in Scotland and between 1830 and 1836 he was the unpaid Secretary of...
