David Octavius Hill

1802 - 1870

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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Camera Work: Sir Francis Grant, P.R.A.

Newhaven Fishwives

Edinburgh Old and New

View of a river with a promenade

Camera Work: Handyside Ritchie and Wm. Henning

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National Galleries Scotland: National

Edinburgh•CLOSING SOON

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven, Connecticut•OPEN

National Gallery of Art

Washington DC•OPEN

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Kansas City•OPEN

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York•OPEN

The Museum of Modern Art

New York•OPEN

National Galleries Scotland: Portrait

Edinburgh•CLOSING SOON

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia•OPEN

Yale Center for British Art

New Haven, Connecticut•CLOSED

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland•OPEN

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