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	David Octavius Hill
		David Octavius Hill (born 1802 in Perth, died 1870) was a respected Scottish painter and arts activist who collaborated with the engineer and photographic pioneer Robert Adamson (born 1821, died 1848) between 1843 and 1847.
		They met whilst Hill was working on a painting depicting the Church of Scotland ministers involved in forming the breakaway Free Church of Scotland in 1843.
		Hill is buried in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh - one of the finest Victorian cemetries in Scotland.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/David_Octavius_Hill (231 words)

	David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson - AMAM
		In 1843 David Octavius Hill decided to paint a vast canvas recording "The First General Assembly of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland," with portraits taken from life of nearly five hundred delegates.
		Adamson, a young chemist of distinguished ability."6 Hill himself wrote, "The rough and unequal texture throughout the paper is the main cause of the calotype failing in details before the Daguerreotype...and this is the very life of it.
		Hill's vision as a painter was influenced by his experience with photography; similarly, his work as an artist made his calotypes into compelling pictures.
	www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/hill_david.html (1124 words)

	Inductee Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson secured a place in the history of photography and art history with their accomplishments with Calotype portraits.
		Sir David Brewster, a renowned physicist (inventor of the kaleidoscope and the stereoscope) was the Principal of St. Andrews University and a colleague of John Adamson.
		David Octavius Hill was present in 1843 at the meeting of the Church of Scotland and witnessed the succession of 457 ministers to reassemble as the Free Church of Scotland.
	www.iphf.org /inductees/adamson-hill.html (623 words)

	Famous Scots - David Octavius Hill
		The partnership of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson produced some of the finest photographic portraits of the 19th century at a time when photography was in its infancy.
		Hill was born in Perth and established himself as a fine landscape painter.
		Hill also returned to painting, mainly landscapes in oils and water colours, but his involvement in the RSA ate into the time he could devote to his work as an artist.
	www.rampantscotland.com /famous/blfamhill.htm (476 words)

	Masters of Photography: Hill & Adamson
		David Octavius Hill was the eighth child of a bookseller and publisher in Perth.
		Sir David Brewster, aware of the utility and inexpensiveness of the calotype, recommended its use as an aid in amassing the individual portraits required to depict the large assembly.
		Hill and Adamson's prints were sold bound in albums or as single images, and their calotypes were exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1844 to 1846.
	www.masters-of-photography.com /H/hill-adamson/hill-a_articles1.html (821 words)

	David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The partnership of David Octavius Hill (1802-1870) and Robert Adamson (1821-1848) is one of the most significant and intriguing in the history of photography.
		The painter, David Octavius Hill, was highly popular and influential in the Edinburgh artistic community.
		Hill's painting of the Disruption - the original stimulus for their photography - was not completed until 1867.
	special.lib.gla.ac.uk /hillandadamson/handa.html (854 words)

	AllRefer.com - David Octavius Hill (Photography, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Hill was a painter of romantic Scottish landscapes.
		In 1843 he was commissioned to make a group portrait of the 470 clergymen who founded the Free Church of Scotland.
		Hill returned to painting and the partners' great work was not rediscovered until 1872.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/Hill-DO.html (215 words)

	David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (1840s) \| Special Topics Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Welsh, read an Act of Protest and led 155 ministers—more than one-third of those present—from the Assembly and through the streets of Edinburgh to Tanfield Hall, where in the days that followed they signed a Deed of Demission, resigning their positions and livelihoods, and established the Free Church of Scotland.
		Hill was a locally prominent and well-connected painter of romantic landscapes and secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy of Fine Arts in Edinburgh.
		Hill, twenty years older than Adamson, was trained as a painter and had important connections in artistic and social circles in Edinburgh; he easily attracted a distinguished clientele to the team's portrait studio at Adamson's home, Rock House.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/hlad/hd_hlad.htm (1080 words)

	The Scotsman - S2 Tuesday - A moment in eternity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was an occasion that demanded commemoration and so Hill, who witnessed it, proposed to paint a grand picture of the secession Assembly at the moment of the definitive action in the founding of the new church, the Signing of the Deed of Demission.
		Hill was a genial and attractive man. These were exactly the qualities that had helped make Raeburn and Ramsay before him such successful portrait painters.
		But the Hill and Adamson partnership was just as good at photographing architecture, travelling around to take pictures of St Andrews, Rosslyn Chapel and even Durham Cathedral; and perhaps most impressive of all their work is the group of pictures of the fishing community of Newhaven.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /s2.cfm?id=404222002 (1109 words)

	Hill, David Octavius 1802-1870, biography English
		Hill was born in Perth, Scotland, in 1802, the son of a bookseller.
		Hill decided to preserve this first synod for all time; as he was unfortunately weak in portraiture, ho hit upon the idea of employing photography to take down his picture.
		It may be noted in passing that Hill always remained faithful to his firs lens in spite of later perfections; it probably seemed to him that the soft effects obtained he with it were more artistic.
	home.arcor.de /historienmalerei/Photoausst08/hillbien.htm (475 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Hill David Octavius and Adamson Robert
		Hill, David Octavius, and Adamson, Robert Scottish portrait photographers who pioneered the production of calotypes, images developed from paper...
		Hill, David Bennett (1843-1910), American politician and attorney who served as governor and senator for the state of New York.
		Hill, David Jayne (1850-1932), American diplomat and historian whose many books explored issues of international law and foreign policy.
	encarta.msn.com /Hill_David_Octavius_and_Adamson_Robert.html (166 words)

	A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: HILL, David Octavius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Octavius Hill devoted most of his life to improving the arts in Scotland.
		He published the first lithographic view of Scotland in "Sketches of Scenery in Perthshire" (1821), and also produced lithographs for "The Works of Robert Burns." He was a portrait painter, and once Secretary of the Scottish Academy of painting, an Academy which he himself had established.
		A much respected scientist of the day, Sir David Brewster, saw in the newly invented calotype process the solution, and suggested that Hill, who was secretary of the Scottish Academy, go into partnership with a chemist,
	www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/hill.htm (303 words)

	David Octavius Hill - Wikipedia
		David Octavius Hill fotógrafo y pintor escocés nacido en el año 1802 y muerto en 1870.
		En el año 1843 se produce la separación de ésta de la Iglesia inglesa, recibiendo Hill el encargo de realizar una pintura de la asamblea fundacional lo más fielmente posible.
		Dada cuenta de la imposibilidad de reunir a los 474 ministros de la Iglesia decidió asociarse con Robert Adamson, quien había trabajado como asistente de William Fox Talbot, para retratar a cada uno de los miembros de la Iglesia por separado, para más tarde realizar la pintura con estos retratos.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Octavius_Hill (307 words)

	Paul Mellon Centre Publications
		David Octavius Hill (1802-70) was a pioneer photographer, a painter and lithographer.
		He lived at a time when Scotland was driven by an astonishing energy and urge for exploration and improvement, coupled with a newly-confident nationalism, based on religious dynamism and literary fame.
		Hill himself, a kind and empathetic man, was an active force in his own world; an enthusiast driven by a strong social impulse as well as a desire to improve the arts, which made his actions and thinking generous and democratic.
	www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk /booksf/books/dohill.html (226 words)

	Hill and Adamson Catalogue Project
		The partnership of D.O. Hill and Robert Adamson is one of the most significant and intriguing in the history of photography.
		Hill announced the undertaking of a great commemorative painting of the event, to include all those present, which would be the basis of an engraving.
		While Hill and Adamson salt prints are held in most photographic collections, no others even approach the two Scottish collections in scope or importance.
	www.lib.gla.ac.uk /Research/hilladams.html (935 words)

	Directory of Pages each page represents one object in the collection
		Hill and Adamson / Portrait of Rev. George L / ca.
		Hill and Adamson / Principal Robert Haldane / ca.
		Hill and Adamson / Rev. Ebenezer Miller and Fa / ca.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico5_list7.html (4075 words)

	Worcester Art Museum - Group of Six Gentlemen, Edinburgh
		Hill, a painter and secretary of the Royal Scottish Academy, employed the new photographic technique to make portrait studies as a preliminary step in creating a monumental work in oils.
		The painting (now in the collection of the Free Church of Scotland) commemorates a church convention in 1843 that severed ties with the British Crown to found the Free Church of Scotland.
		Hill sought the collaboration of Adamson, a Saint Andrews calotypist, to photograph the individual church delegates- among them the professor and one of the five ministers shown here.
	www.worcesterart.org /Collection/European/1966.50.html (178 words)

	Hill and Adamson (Getty Press Release)
		Hill, a painter, and Adamson, an engineer, initially teamed up to prepare photographic studies for Hill’s large historical painting commemorating the formation of the Free Church of Scotland.
		Also included are a chronology of significant events in the history of the Hill and Adamson alliance and an edited transcript of a colloquium on the artists held at the Getty Center in 1997 with participants Ms.
		Light in the Darkness: The Photographs of Hill and Adamson is one of three exhibitions on view at the Getty Museum this summer that explore portraiture and fame.
	www.getty.edu /news/press/exhibit/hilladam.html (696 words)

	David Octavius Hill & Robert Adamson
		David Octavius Hill was the eighth child in his family - hence the name Octavius.
		The Disruption painting was DO Hill's most ambitious undertaking, but the result is generally accepted as being less successful than his calotypes.
		Hill and Adamson's work was highly praised in the Press when it was exhibited in the 1850s.
	www.edinphoto.org.uk /pp_d/pp_hill_summary.htm (390 words)

	Hill, David Octavius; and Adamson, Robert -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		When Austrian immigrant brothers Jean and Julian Aberbach formed their Hill and Range publishing company in 1945, the name they chose made it clear which songwriters they were after—the country-and-western writers who had been long overlooked by the established publishers affiliated with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).
		Hill, who was born on April 2, 1899, discovered in 1937 that isolated chloroplasts (the green particles responsible for photosynthesis in plants) could produce oxygen from water in the presence of light and an appropriate chemical compound introduced to serve as an electron acceptor, a process that became known as the Hill reaction.
		For more than 30 years David Livingstone worked in Africa as a medical missionary and traveled the continent from the equator to the Cape and from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9040453 (754 words)

	David Octavius Hill, Tour Scotland.
		Hill, with his partner Robert Adamson, was a pioneer of the new medium, using it for portrait work as well as
		The Personal Art of David Octavius Hill David Octavius Hill (1802-70) was a pioneer photographer, a painter and lithographer.
		This text is designed to present new research, firstly analyzing the photographic partnership and offering an understanding of its remarkable success; secondly, to explain the purpose and intelligence of this familiar work in the context of Hill's life of 68 years.
	www.visitdunkeld.com /david-octavius-hill.htm (241 words)

	Handbook:Scottish Fishwives, Washaday Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson's photographic collaboration-begun just four years after the announcement of the discovery of the daguerreotype process-involved making photographs as references from which painters could work.
		Hill, using his training as a painter and lithographer, set up the shots and arranged backgrounds and costumes, while Adamson manipulated the chemical processes and the cameras.
		Hill and Adamson's project was conceived as a way to raise money to improve the working conditions of these "fisherfolk." The women's distinctively striped skirts identified the "fisher lassies" as they sold cod, herring, and oysters from their baskets and creels on the streets of Edinburgh.
	www.museum.cornell.edu /HFJ/handbook/hb130.html (263 words)

	Vintage Photographs - Vintage Photographs - DAVID OCTAVIUS HILL & ROBERT ADAMSON - From a Collection of Fine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson were partners in the earliest days of photography.
		One problem that Hill and Adamson failed to resolve was the control of the eye.
		Because the exposures were so long, it seems that Hill told the sitters to close their eyes rather than blink.
	dpicg.com /collection/hilladamson/intro.html (331 words)

	The Royal Photographic Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hill, the artist and Adamson, the chemist, started working together after Hill was commissioned to paint a mass portrait of the general Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
		Hill's idea was to photograph all the members and paint from the photographs, but the photography excited him more than the painting, which was not finished for another 23 years.
		Hill and Adamson had plans to document the lives of communities around Scotland using photography.
	www.rps.org /book/hilladam.html (273 words)

	David Octavius Hill (1802 - 1870) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Hill and Adamson, Scottish, 19th century Inclusive of David Octavius Hill, Scottish, 1802-1870 Inclusive of
		Hill, a painter, and Adamson, an engineer, initially teamed up to prepare photographic studies for Hill’s large historical painting commemorating the formation of the Free Church of Sc...
		The exhibition traces Carl Fredrik Hill's artistic development, from his earliest works, created in Lund in the 1860s, to the expressive drawings from his illness period at the end of his career.
	wwar.com /masters/h/hill-david_octavius.html (968 words)

	Talbot Correspondence Project: BREWSTER David to TALBOT William Henry Fox, 03 Jul 1843 [04839] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		His professional partnership with the painter David Octavius Hill (1802–1870), Scottish painter and photographer, which began in May 1843, established – at the dawn of photography – the art of photographic portraiture at the highest level.
		David Octavius Hill finished the painting, The Signing of the Deed of Demission, depicting the signing of the Act of Separation on 23 May 1842 in the Tanfield Hall, 24 years later.
		This compares a print by David Allan of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1783 and Hill’s planned engraving of the Disruption scene.
	www.foxtalbot.arts.gla.ac.uk /corresp/04839.asp (733 words)

	Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net
		'''David Octavius Hill''' (born 1802 in Perth, Scotland Perth, died 1870) was a respected Scottish painter and arts activist who collaborated with the engineer and photographic pioneer Robert Adamson (photographer) Robert Adamson (born 1821, died 1848) between 1843 and 1847.
		Hill is buried in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh - one of the finest Victorian era Victorian cemetries in Scotland.
		There you find a list of all editors and the possibility to edit the original text of the article David Octavius Hill.
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	David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson vintage photographs for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		David Octavius Hill, Robert Adamson vintage photographs for sale
		Hill was a landscape painter who had become interested in photography while planning a large commemorative painting of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland; he sought the help of Adamson in the belief that the calotype process would aid in rendering the likeness of the 474 clergymen and dignitaries involved.
		The partners soon expanded their subject matter to include genre and other scenes, and between them made about 1,500 images before the partnership ended when Adamson died in 1848.
	www.leegallery.com /hilladamson.html (170 words)

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