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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
12_ 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.
€400-€600 (£290-£440 approx. approx.)
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 169IRISH & INTERNATIONAL ART · 28 SEPTEMBER 2015