Samuel Prout Hill b. c.1820

  • Artist (Painter)
Painter, lecturer, poet and public servant, in the 1840s Hill was very active in the Sydney arts and culture scene. In 1848 he moved to Tasmania where he later turned to politics.
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Citations

  • 'Lectures Delivered at the Mechanics Institute Hobart Town’, Includes lectures by Hill.

  • Hill, Samuel Prout (1847), 'A Monody on the Death of Sir George Gipps’.

  • Hill, Samuel Prout (1843), 'Tarquin the Proud and Other Poems’.

  • Buckie, H. (1966), 'Samuel Prout Hill’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, volume 1, Pike, Douglas (ed.), Melbourne, Vic.

  • Andel, L.V. (1984), 'Clerk of the House: The Reminiscences of Hugh Munro Hull 1818-1882’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • (1849), 'Annual Report of the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts for the Year 1848’, Sydney, NSW.

  • (1 November 1845), Standard.

  • Information sourced from Stilwell, G.T.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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Related collections
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, TAS (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC (collected in)
  • Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, TAS (collected in)
  • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas. (collected in)
  • National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT (collected in)
  • Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)
  • Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (collected in)