Robert Hills
Nook End, Ambleside
c. 1807
Physical Qualities
Watercolor over graphite on paper, Sheet: 357 x 270 mm. (14 1/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
2006.93
Robert Hills was a founding member and first secretary of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, established in 1804. He specialized in detailed images of animals in barn interiors, farmyards, and pastures, and published a remarkable series of 780 etchings of animals. Hills’ fellow painters appreciated his abilities as an animalier, and often asked him to add animals to their works. He painted this watercolor during a summer sketching tour around the Lake District on the central western coast of England.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2006; Lowell Libson Ltd., London; purchased at estate sale, Sotheby's London, 8 December 2005, lot 187; Sir Michael Ingram, London
Ann Shafer, BMA, "Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints," 27 August - 7 December 2008.
Possibly exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, 1807, listed as Nookend Bridge, near Ambleside (noted in Walker's Quarterly, no 12, July 1923, p. 33).
Possibly exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, 1807, listed as Nookend Bridge, near Ambleside (noted in Walker's Quarterly, no 12, July 1923, p. 33).
Basil S. Long, "Robert Hills Water-Colour Painter and Etcher," Walker's Quarterly, No. 12 (July 1923), 33.
Ann Shafer, "Picturesque England," "Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society of the BMA," Spring 2007, Vol. XXV, No. 1, p. 16, ill. p. 17.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "At Nook end, or Pooley's (?) Bridge, Nr Ambleside"
Markings: CM: Sir Michael Ingram (Lugt undesc)
