17-437: David Hill may refer to: Arts and music [ edit ] David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), Scottish painter and arts activist David Hess (1936–2011), American actor, singer, and songwriter, also known as David Hill David Hill (author) (born 1942), New Zealand author of fiction David Hill (producer) (born 1946), American executive producer of television, mainly with
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51-562: A 1776 portrait by Benjamin West David Hill Memorial School , a school for blind girls in Hankou, China (1883–1911) David Octavius Hill Medal , a prize in photography established in 1955 Dave Hill (disambiguation) Hill (surname) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
68-680: A group of subscribers raised £1,200 to buy the painting for the church. In 1869 illness forced him to give up his post as secretary to the RSA, and he died in May 1870. Hill is buried in Dean Cemetery , Edinburgh – one of the finest Victorian cemeteries in Scotland. He is portrayed in a bust sculpted by his second wife, Amelia , who is buried alongside him. Some of his photographs were put on show in Glasgow in 1954 but
85-2352: The Fox organization David Hill (choral director) (born 1957), British choral conductor and organist David Hill (music manager) , British former member of the band Ballistic Brothers and founder of Nuphonic record label Politics [ edit ] David Hill (Oregon politician) (1809–1850), American politician, founder of the city of Hillsboro, Oregon David B. Hill (1843–1910), American politician, Governor of New York, 1885–1891, U.S. Senator from New York, 1892–1897 David Jayne Hill (1850–1932), American academic, diplomat and author, U. S. Assistant Secretary of State, 1898–1903 David Hill (Canadian politician) (born c. 1978), Canadian politician, Ottawa city councillor Sports [ edit ] David Hill (Rangers footballer) (fl. 1881–1882), Scottish footballer (Rangers and Scotland) David Hill (footballer, born 1881) (1881–1928), Scottish footballer (Third Lanark and Scotland) David Hill (cricketer) (1915–1974), Guyanese cricketer David Hill (rugby league) (fl. 1967–1978), British rugby league player (Wigan and Great Britain) David Hill (tight end) (born 1954), American football player (Detroit Lions) David Hill (footballer, born 1965) , English footballer for Bradford City David Hill (wide receiver) (born 1977), American football player David Hill (rugby union) (born 1978), New Zealand rugby union player David Hill (parathlete) (born 1989), British Paralympic swimmer and triathlete Other people [ edit ] David Hill (Mohawk) (1745–1790), Mohawk chief David Hill (missionary) (1840–1896), British Wesleyan Methodist missionary to China David Haworth Hill (1851–1926), British-born Australian civil servant and philatelist David Keynes Hill (1915–2002), British physiologist Tex Hill (David Lee Hill, 1915–2007), American fighter pilot and flying ace David L. Hill (1919–2008), American nuclear physicist David Hill (businessman) (born 1946), Australian businessman David Mark Hill (1960–2008), American spree killer David Hill (Labour adviser) (1948–2024), British political adviser See also [ edit ] Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill) ,
102-909: The Royal Scottish Academy began to pay him a salary as secretary, and with this security he married his fiancée Ann Macdonald the following year. After the birth of their daughter, Charlotte Hill, Ann was invalided, and died on 5 October 1841, aged 36, and was buried with her family in Greyfriars Churchyard in Perth. Charlotte Hill went on to marry the author Walter Scott Dalgleish LLD and is buried in Grange Cemetery, The Grange, Edinburgh . He continued to produce illustrations and to paint landscapes on commission. During this period he lived at 28 Inverleith Row in Edinburgh's northern suburbs. Hill
119-626: The Scott Monument under construction in Edinburgh. As well as the great and the good, they photographed ordinary working folk, particularly the fishermen of Newhaven , and the fishwives who carried the fish in creels the 3 miles (5 km) uphill to the city of Edinburgh to sell them round the doors, with their cry of " Caller herrin " (fresh herring ). They produced several groundbreaking "action" photographs of soldiers and – perhaps their most famous photograph – two priests walking side by side. Their partnership produced around 3,000 prints, but
136-482: The assistance of his close friend Henry Cockburn . A year later Hill took on unpaid secretarial duties. He sought commissions in book illustration, with four sketches being used to illustrate The Glasgow and Garnkirk Railway Prospectus in 1832, and went on to provide illustrations for editions of Walter Scott and Robert Burns . In the 1830s he is listed as living at 24 Queen Street, in Edinburgh's New Town . In 1836
153-591: The camera, proved extremely successful, and they soon broadened their subject matter. Adamson's studio, "Rock House", on Calton Hill in Edinburgh became the centre of their photographic experiments. Using the calotype process, they produced a wide range of portraits depicting well-known Scottish luminaries of the time, including Hugh Miller , both in the studio and outdoors, often amongst the elaborate tombs in Greyfriars Kirkyard . They photographed local and Fife landscapes and urban scenes, including images of
170-989: The first major exhibition of his work was in 1963 in Essen , Germany. [REDACTED] Media related to David Octavius Hill at Wikimedia Commons David Octavius Hill Medal [REDACTED] This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . ( Learn how and when to remove these messages ) [REDACTED] This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "David Octavius Hill Medal" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2018 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message ) [REDACTED] This article relies largely or entirely on
187-438: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Hill&oldid=1256804538 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages David Octavius Hill David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 – 17 May 1870)
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#1732854557930204-549: The ministers present. Brewster was himself experimenting with this technology which only dated back to 1839, and he introduced Hill to another enthusiast, Robert Adamson . Hill and Adamson took a series of photographs of those who had been present and of the setting. The 5 feet (1.5 m) x 11.4 feet (3.5 m) painting was eventually completed in 1866. Hill moved to "Calton Hill Stairs" in 1850. Their collaboration, with Hill providing skill in composition and lighting, and Adamson considerable sensitivity and dexterity in handling
221-695: The publishers Blackwood's in Edinburgh , Hill went there to study at the School of Design. He learned lithography and produced Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire which was published as an album of views. His landscape paintings were shown in the Institution for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Scotland , and he was among the artists dissatisfied with the Institution who established a separate Scottish Academy in 1829 with
238-505: The results were more static and less successful than his collaboration with Adamson. He was badly affected by the death of his daughter and his work slowed. In 1866 he finished the Disruption picture which received wide acclaim, though many of the participants had died by then. The photographer F.C. Annan produced fine reduced facsimiles of the painting for sale throughout the Free Church, and
255-487: Was a Scottish painter, photographer and arts activist. He formed Hill & Adamson studio with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of photography in Scotland. David Octavius Hill was born in 1802 in Perth . His father, a bookseller and publisher, helped to re-establish Perth Academy and David was educated there as were his brothers. When his older brother Alexander joined
272-496: Was cut short after only four years due to the ill health and death of Adamson in 1848. The calotypes faded under sunlight, so had to be kept in albums, and though Hill continued the studio for some months, he became less active and abandoned the studio, though he continued to sell prints of the photographs and to use them as an aid for composing paintings. In 1862 he remarried, to the sculptor Amelia Robertson Paton , 20 years his junior, and around that time took up photography again, but
289-584: Was present at the Disruption Assembly in 1843 when over 450 ministers walked out of the Church of Scotland assembly and down to another assembly hall to found the Free Church of Scotland . He decided to record the dramatic scene with the encouragement of his friend Lord Cockburn and another spectator, the physicist Sir David Brewster who suggested using the new invention, photography, to get likenesses of all
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