Media: BOOK - 106 pages
Author: Ian Sellick
Year: 2023
Other: photos, appendixes
Publisher: Ian Sellick

This long awaited book on the well-known South Australian Colonial Painter, Mr Charles Hill is now finally available. The author has created an extensive archive of Charles Hill`s ancestors and descendants along with an extensive look at his early art education, career and his surprising attempt to open a hotel in Kensington. Through Mr Hill`s determination after his arrival in 1854 he established the S.A. School of Art, S.A. School of Design and most importantly the S.A. Society of Art. Many of his paintings now hang in the S.A. Art Gallery, Ayres House and the Whyalla Civic centre. Mr Hill is mostly famous for painting many of South Australia`s prominent historical events including the magnificent, ‘Reading the Proclamation,’ depicting the ceremony at Glenelg in 1836 that now hangs proudly in the Art Gallery of S.A.

The book consists of 106 pages, 24,260 words, 87 previously unpublished photographs and a further 10 photographs.

Contents:

Chapter 1 .... 1824- 1854
Chapter 2 .... 1854- 1918
Chapter 3 .... Society of Arts 1856- 1881
Chapter 4 .... Charles and Eliza's children
Chapter 5 .... Charles Hill 1793-1848
Chapter 6 .... Henry Hill 1746- 1814
Chapter 7 .... Ancestors
Chapter 8 .... 5th and 6th Generation Individuals
Chapter 9 .... Known artwork in Australia
Chapter 10 .... Family Trees
Appendices
Index

Price: $29.50

Postage
   - Australia: On application
   - Overseas: On application
Payment: cheque or money order / bank transfer

Send order to:
Ian Sellick
Email: cedric@senet.com.au
Ph. 0418 891 830