John Hill
(1839 - 1922)
John Henry Hill was active/lived in New York, California. John Hill is known for mountain landscape, still life, etcher.
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The following biography is by Doug Nelson, White Mountain Art Collector from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
John Henry Hill was a distinguished landscape painter of the American
Pre-Raphaelite
tradition. From a family of artists, he followed his father, John
William Hill in his passion as a watercolorist. The elder Hill,
himself the son of the English engraver John Hill, was among the
founders of the American Watercolor Society.
A life-long resident (1839-1922) of West Nyack, New York, John Henry Hill was
influenced
by John Ruskin and David Johnson in their realistic examinations of
nature. Using a brushwork technique that called for small and drier
brushstrokes, he created the differing textures of trees ... Displaying 750 of 1960 characters.