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 aspects of photography in Scotland.
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David Octavius Hill
Photograph from the frontispiece of an album dated 1848, showing D O Hill sketching in Greyfriars Kirkyard, watched by the Misses Morris. Other tableaux in the same setting included The Artist and The Gravedigger
The Disruption of 1843 was painted by Hill.
Clergymen who had been at the Assembly, photographed at Dumbarton Presbytery in 1845 as the basis for their portraits in the top left row of the painting.
"Rock House"
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About this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1802 to 1870 · aged 67
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