Hattie Hutchcraft Hill

Hattie Hutchcraft Hill (April 27, 1847 – September 2, 1921) was an American artist from Paris, Kentucky who studied art and painted in Paris, France.[1][2]

Hattie Hutchcraft Hill
Born
Harriet Amanda Hutchcraft

(1847-04-27)27 April 1847
Bourbon County, Kentucky
Died2 September 1921(1921-09-02) (aged 74)
Paris, Kentucky
Resting placeParis Cemetery
NationalityAmerican
EducationAcadémie Julian
Known forPainting
Mother Hen with Chicks

Early life and education

Harriet Amanda Hutchraft was born to her parents, James and Elizabeth Hutchcraft, on April 27, 1847 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. She was the sixth of her parents' nine children. She married a man named William Hill from Illinois in 1866.

She visited the Paris World's Fair (the Exposition Universelle (1878)) with one of her sisters in 1878, which may have inspired or encouraged her ambitions to become a painter. In 1888 she returned to Europe, traveling through Italy, Spain, and France, where she met with the painter Rosa Bonheur, and in 1890 she settled in Paris and enrolled in art school at the Académie Julian, studying with Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.[3]

Career as artist

Hill is most known for oil works, consisting mainly of still-life, portraits, landscapes and marine pictures. She painted under the name "H. Hutchcraft Hill".[4]

While in France, Hill exhibited in two Paris Salons. After returning to the United States, she maintained a portrait studio in Los Angeles from 1895 to 1898.[5] Back at her home in Bourbon County, Kentucky Hill became a prolific painter and china-painting teacher. She was a close friend of Sarah Bernhardt, of whom she painted a portrait.[6] She painted a portrait series of Bourbon County judges which hangs in the Bourbon County Courthouse. Hill lived, painted, and taught in Paris, Kentucky until her death in 1921.[7]

References
  1. "Hattie Hutchcraft Hill scrapbook, 1857-1921". Archives of American Art website. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  2. Pennington, Estill Curtis (2008). Kentucky: The Master Painters from the Frontier Era to the Great Depression. Cane Ridge Publishing House. ISBN 978-0615242156.
  3. Bonner, Judith H., and Estill Curtis Pennington (2006–2013). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21: Art and Architecture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807837184.
  4. Kentucky Women Remembered: Biographical Sketches of Women Who Have Contributed to Kentucky History. Kentucky International Women's Year Coordinating Committee. 1977. p. 2.
  5. Kentucky Women Artists: 1850-2000. Owensboro, Kentucky: Owensboro Museum of Fine Art. 2001. p. 62. OCLC 49200213.
  6. Biographical Extracts relating to Prominent Artists of Louisville and Kentucky. Louisville, Kentucky: Louisville Free Public Library. 1939. pp. 106–107.
  7. "Hattie Hutchcraft Hill scrapbook, 1857-1921". Archives of American Art website. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
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