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Derek Hill (painter)

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135: 143: 296:, where he had a painting hut for years, and started and then mentored the artists' community there, teaching the local fishermen how to paint. This led on to the informal but busy "Tory School" of artists such as James Dixon and Anton Meenan, who found that they had the time to paint and used their wild surroundings as a dramatic subject. 393:
residencies at the BSR. The scholarship is granted through an open, competitive selection of British and Irish artists in the fields of drawing and painting, providing a stipend and three months full-board in one of the
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He died at a London hospital on 30 July 2000, aged 83, and is buried in Hampshire in the South of England with his parents. Memorial services were held for him in
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Macmillan, P., 2007. The Grants Register: The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide, Palgrave Macmillan.
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In 1989, shortly before Hill's death, he established a charitable trust which provides annual bursaries for the
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An exhibition of his work and personal art collection can be seen at the house and associated
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Ruthen, A. (Lord Guthrie)., 1987. Derek Hill: an appreciation, Quartet Books.
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Derek Hill had a great love of Rome and was the Director of Fine Arts at the
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in 1997. A retrospective exhibition was arranged for and by him at the
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visited Hill in the 1970s, a visit which formed inspiration for
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to paint the portrait of the Irish-American art collector,
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His long association with Ireland began when he visited
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and traveller, with a wide range of friends such as
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from the 1960s; his subjects including many notable
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A fuller biography of Hill by 646:British conscientious objectors 631:English expatriates in Ireland 225:. 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CBE
HRHA
Southampton
CBE
HRHA
landscape painter


Southampton
Hampshire
Leningrad
Second World War
conscientious objector
Glenveagh Castle
County Donegal
Henry McIlhenny
Milford
portrait painter
composers
Gay Byrne
Teddy Kollek
Prince of Wales
art collector
Bryan Guinness
Isaiah Berlin
Greta Garbo
Frank McGuinness
Churchill, County Donegal
Pablo Picasso
Edgar Degas

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