(1812–1879) was a British born American artist working in watercolor, gouache, lithography, and engraving.
Hill's work focussed primarily upon natural subjects including landscapes, still lifes, and ornithological and zoological subjects. In the 1850s, influenced by John Ruskin and Hill's association with American followers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his attention turned from technical illustration toward still life and landscape.
Hill was the son of British aquatint engraver John Hill. He emigrated with his parents from London to the United States in 1819, initially living in Philadelphia. In 1822 the family moved to New York, where Hill apprenticed in aquatint engraving in his father's shop.
In 1838 Hill married Catherine Smith - their children included the astronomer George William Hill and the painter John Henry Hill.
In watercolor and aquatint engravings, Hill employed a stipple technique, building up planes of softly gradated colors made of tiny brushstrokes–a process commonly seen in painted miniatures. Applied to a larger scale on canvas the result was a form of objective real...
BÖRTZELL, JOHAN ERIK ALGERNON.
1840-1918.
Industriman. Efter att ha utexaminerats från Teknologiska inst:s fackavd. för maskinbyggnad tjänstgjorde B. vid Sveriges geol. undersökning. 1872 blev han föreståndare för Generalstabens litografiska anstalt, som han fullständigt reorganiserade. Bl.a. införde B. de nya fotokemiska reproduktionsmetoderna. 1893-1913 var han föreståndare för Riksbankens sedeltryckeri, vilket han även moderniserade. 1881 erhöll han hovintendents titel.
Sv. Uppslag.bok 2:a uppl. Recension i Teknisk Tidskrift 1872 av Algernon Börtzells verk "Beskrifning öfver Besier-Ecksteins kromolitografi och litotypografi"
Fransk gravör.
Bland arbeten.
'Plan de Paris' också känd som 'Plan de Turgot'. 1734-1739.
Ingermanlandiae – Homanns Erben 1734
Adam och Eva, Orchis sambucinus - Lindman, C. A. M, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 1917-26.
