JOHN HENRY HILL

 (1839-1922)

Painter and etcher John Henry Hill represented the third generation in a family of well-established landscape artists. Hill extended his father’s interest in landscape and watercolor, and shared a talent for tightly detailed style of Pre-Raphaelitism. Trained as an artist by his father, he made three trips to Europe, to London in 1864-1865 and 1878 and to the Continent in 1879. In 1868 he painted scenes of the West while on a government expedition led by Clarence Kind, but most of his works depict locations in New England or New York State, particularly Lake George.