Derek Hill
(1916-2000), Artist, writer and organiser of exhibitions(Arthur) Derek Hill
Sitter in 5 portraits
Artist associated with 9 portraits
Hill first worked as a theatre designer in Munich, Paris, Vienna and Sadler's Wells, London. From the 1960s, he concentrated on painting portraits and was head of art at the British School in Rome during the 1950s.
Derek Hill and an unknown woman in costume for a Fête Champêtre
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print, 1936
NPG x40680
by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1952
NPG x14105
Derek Hill; Mary Evelyn Hungerford (née Crewe-Milnes), Duchess of Roxburghe with two unknown others
by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, April 1955
NPG x136241
Group outside the British Embassy in Rome
by Virginia Surtees
vintage snapshot print, April 1955
NPG x136242
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