Cowherd on a Country Track
Cowherd on a Country Track
Cowherd on a Country TrackSigned lower right: RHills. 1811.Watercolour over pencil43 by 31.6 cm., 16 ¾ by 12 ½ in.Hills entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1788 and first exhibited there in 1791. In 1804 he was one of the six founding members of the Society of Painters in Water-colours and exhibited almost six hundred drawings there during his lifetime. He specialised in studies of animals and farmyards in a distinctive `fuzzy' technique.){kind=link}
Robert Hills (1769-1844)
Cowherd on a Country Track
Signed lower right: RHills. 1811.
Watercolour over pencil
43 by 31.6 cm., 16 ¾ by 12 ½ in.
Hills entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1788 and first exhibited there in 1791. In 1804 he was one of the six founding members of the Society of Painters in Water-colours and exhibited almost six hundred drawings there during his lifetime. He specialised in studies of animals and farmyards in a distinctive `fuzzy' technique.