David Octavius Hill
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David Octavius Hill 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 aspe
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Hill sketching in Greyfriars Kirkyard (1848).
Hill painted by Patric Park, 1842
Bust on Hill's grave
Amelia Robertson Hill
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Amelia Robertson Hill, birth record Emmilia McDermaid Paton, was a prominent Scottish artist and sculptor throughout the 19th century and one of the few with public commissions. Her most noteworthy wo
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…to be involved in photography. Mann worked with Hill and Adamson until the studio closed after Adamson's death. In 1862 he remarried, to the sculptor Amelia Robertson Hill, 20 years his junior, and around that time took up photography again, but the results were more static and less successful than his collaboration with…
Sketch by Alexander Blaikley 1853, SNPG
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Percy Shelley (Tate Britain)