Painter of landscapes and portraits, who completed a series of Thames scenes, included in many years of exhibiting at RA Summer Exhibition. (He is sometimes listed as A Stuart Hill, under Hill.) Among his sitters were notabilities such as Turner Layton, The Duchess of Choiseul and The Countess Cahan d’Anvers, and the Institution of Civil Engineers holds his 1946 portrait of its president F E Wentworth-Shields. Painted views of Switzerland and Italy. Stuart-Hill was made a member of RP in 1931, also showing at Redfern Gallery, NEAC, RSA and Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Stuart-Hill’s poster work for Shell showed a marked Vorticist influence. For around 30 years had a studio in Glebe Place, Chelsea, where as Alexander S Hill he had been born.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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