biography
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Hill, David Octavius
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| lived:
| (1802–70)
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| biography:
| Photographer and painter, born in Perth, Perth and Kinross, E Scotland, UK. In 1843 he was commissioned to paint a commemorative scene of the founding of the Free Church of Scotland, and in order to get accurate details of the many founders, decided to take photographs of them. In this he was helped by the Edinburgh chemist, Robert Adamson, who had experience of the calotype process. The results of their collaboration, some 1500 pictures, are considered to be the finest photographic portraits of the 19th-c. |
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