All Thomas Hill's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
31940 Bridal Vell Falls,Yosemite Bridal Vell Falls,Yosemite mk77 c.1870-84 Oil on canvas 72x95in
4135 California Game California Game 1874
4133 Castle Craigs, California Castle Craigs, California 1878
4132 Grand Canyon of the Sierras, Yosemite Grand Canyon of the Sierras, Yosemite 1871
48522 The Gardenr-s Labyrinth The Gardenr-s Labyrinth mk190 1577
4131 The Muir Glacier in Alaska The Muir Glacier in Alaska 1887-88
4134 View of Lake Tahoe looking across Emerald Bay View of Lake Tahoe looking across Emerald Bay 1874
71731 View of the Yosemite Valley View of the Yosemite Valley 1865(1865) Oil on canvas 54 x 72 in (137.16 x 182.88 cm)
77540 WLA lacma Thomas Hill Emerald Bay Lake Tahoe WLA lacma Thomas Hill Emerald Bay Lake Tahoe WLA lacma Thomas Hill Emerald Bay Lake Tahoe cjr
Thomas Hill
1829-1908 Thomas Hill was born in England on September 11, 1829. At the age of 15, he emigrated to the United States with his family. They settled in Taunton, Massachusetts. In 1851, he married Charlotte Elizabeth Hawkins. They had nine children. At the age of 24, Hill attended evening classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and studied under American painter Peter Frederick Rothermel (1812-1895). During his years as a student, Hill traveled to the White Mountains in New Hampshire as early as 1854 and sketched alongside members of the Hudson River School, such as Benjamin Champney. In 1856, Hill and his family moved to San Francisco, California. With painter Virgil Williams and photographer Carleton Watkins, Hill made his first trip to the Yosemite Valley in 1865. The next year, Hill traveled to the East Coast and Europe. He established his family on the East Coast but continued to take sketching trips to the West Coast and to attend meetings of the San Francisco Art Association. He moved his family back to San Francisco in 1873. Hill made yearly sketching trips to Yosemite, Mount Shasta, and, back east, to the White Mountains. Hill ran an art gallery and art supply store. He briefly acted as the interim director for the SFAA School of Design and went to Alaska on a commission for environmentalist John Muir. He lived on his stock market investments as well as his art proceeds. His marriage ended in the 1880s. Toward the end of his life, he maintained a studio at Yosemite??s Wawona Hotel. After suffering a stroke, Hill left Yosemite and traveled up and down the California coast, including stops in Coronado, San Diego and Santa Barbara. He died in Raymond, California, on June 30, 1908, and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California. . Related Artists to : | Mihaly Zichy | martin mijtens d.a | Ambrosius Benson | Antonio Pollaiolo | Sergei Svetoslavsky |