# Rowland Henry Hill artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T16:35:08.813Z
Quality: medium confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: English
- Common media: Watercolour, Oil on canvas, Watercolour and charcoal heightened with white

## About Rowland Henry Hill

Rowland Henry Hill (1873–1952) was an English painter whose identity is recorded by Wikidata and linked authority files including Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress. The collected work examples show a practice spanning watercolour, oil on canvas, and watercolour combined with charcoal and white heightening. Their subjects include Yorkshire coastal and rural locations such as Runswick Bay, Ellerby, and Lythe, alongside children, sheep, and hounds. These examples help explain why Hill may appear in varied auction categories: some works are landscape or coastal views, while others are figurative or animal subjects. Several recorded examples are signed, and some carry dates from 1900 to 1937. The source pack does not provide enough accessible institutional biography to confirm his training, exhibition history, or association with a particular movement, so those details remain unasserted pending stronger documentation.

## Common works and media

Collected auction examples include watercolour landscapes and coastal views associated with Yorkshire locations, oil portraits or narrative figure scenes, and mixed-media works on paper. Recorded subjects include Runswick Bay, sheep at Ellerby, hounds at Lythe, and young figures. Some examples are signed or signed and dated. These examples describe work types visible in the supplied records, but they should not be treated as a complete catalogue of Hill's output.

## Market and appraisal context

A careful appraisal of a work attributed to Rowland Henry Hill should document its medium, support, dimensions, subject, named location, and any signature or date. The collected examples range from oil on canvas to watercolour and mixed watercolour-and-charcoal works, so comparisons should be made with genuinely similar objects rather than across all media. Several lot descriptions record signatures and dates, but the source pack does not supply provenance, condition reports, authentication evidence, or realized prices. Those omissions limit market conclusions. Comparable public auction records should therefore be evaluated by work type, technique, size, subject, date, and the strength of the individual attribution before any value opinion is formed.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. This profile distinguishes authority-supported identity facts from the more limited work metadata in the collected source pack.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21455260
- Art UK: https://artuk.org/discover/artists/hill-rowland-henry-18731952
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500006644
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/76216773/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr96034863
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rowland_Henry_Hill_-_69d4ea5aea.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rowland_Henry_Hill_-_48f45e89a4.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rowland_Henry_Hill_-_5e348e6b0b.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rowland_Henry_Hill_-_a3446ef82b.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rowland_Henry_Hill_-_0fc4e8290f.jpg