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Nathaniel Hill RHA (1860-1930) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY, CLOGHERHEAD, 1894 and PORTRAIT OF POPPY,
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Nathaniel Hill RHA (1860-1930) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY, CLOGHERHEAD, 1894 and PORTRAIT OF POPPY, 1889 (A PAIR) pencil; (2) signed and dated [Jan 7 1889] on contents page of magazine; drawings inscribed and dated, lower left and lower right respectively 12¼ x 9in. (31.12 x 22.86cm) A similar portrait in pencil of fellow artist Walter Osborne can be found in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, see, Illustrated Summary Catalogue of Drawings, Watercolours and Miniatures, 1983, p. 285.Irish Impressionist painter, Nathaniel Hill, was born in Drogheda to a wealthy milling family. He studied at the Metropolitan School of Art and the RHA schools in Dublin (sharing lodgings with Roderic O’Conor), and later joined Walter Osborne and Joseph Malachy Kavanagh at the Académie Royale in Antwerp. After travelling with Osborne and Kavanagh to Brittany in 1883, he moved to England, where he is recorded as having lived variously in Worcestershire, Suffolk, Sussex and possibly Hertfordshire.
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Nathaniel Hill RHA (1860-1930) PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG BOY, CLOGHERHEAD, 1894 and PORTRAIT OF POPPY, 1889 (A PAIR) pencil; (2) signed and dated [Jan 7 1889] on contents page of magazine; drawings inscribed and dated, lower left and lower right respectively 12¼ x 9in. (31.12 x 22.86cm) A similar portrait in pencil of fellow artist Walter Osborne can be found in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland, see, Illustrated Summary Catalogue of Drawings, Watercolours and Miniatures, 1983, p. 285.Irish Impressionist painter, Nathaniel Hill, was born in Drogheda to a wealthy milling family. He studied at the Metropolitan School of Art and the RHA schools in Dublin (sharing lodgings with Roderic O’Conor), and later joined Walter Osborne and Joseph Malachy Kavanagh at the Académie Royale in Antwerp. After travelling with Osborne and Kavanagh to Brittany in 1883, he moved to England, where he is recorded as having lived variously in Worcestershire, Suffolk, Sussex and possibly Hertfordshire.
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Dublin 4
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