希尔是英国的儿子飞尘雕刻师约翰·希尔。他移居与他的父母从伦敦到美国于1819年，最初住在费城。1822年，全家搬到了纽约，在那里当学徒山在飞尘雕刻在他父亲的店。

1838年希尔结婚凯瑟琳·史密斯-他们的孩子包括天文学家乔治·威廉希尔和画家约翰·亨利·希尔。

在水彩和版画飞尘，希尔采用了点画技术，建立的取得了微缩彩绘常见的小笔触，这个过程中轻轻毕业颜色的飞机。适用于规模较大的画布上的结果与19世纪中期美国绘画的比较常见的浪漫主义作品的对比客观现实主义的一种形式。1829年，时年17岁，希尔开始陈列在他父亲的工作室在布鲁克林艺术协会和生产的水彩画和版画设计的美国国家科学院。1833年，时年21岁的希尔被选为成员设计的美国国家科学院关联。

在二十出头就开始山工作，为纽约州地质调查，首次创造了一系列的地形研究和原则的美国城市和城镇的开销意见。这项工作是不同的Arial字体的视角和记录分钟建筑细节的其准确性。城市居住需要经常出差的这些画像观察，写生，并创建成品水彩画研究之前映射。然后，完成的水彩画被重建为色平版艺术和史密斯兄弟，纽约市发布者发布。

希尔与纽约州地质调查工作，他的插图后继续詹姆斯·埃尔斯沃思德凯的纽约州，或动物; 新-纽约动物。第二部分，鸟发表于1844年像约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦的鸟类画像，希尔被刷上了一个客观的眼睛，记录准确的解剖结构和颜色，并捕捉动物的自然面容。

而在他四十出头山读约翰·罗斯金的现代画家，并迷上了拉斐尔前派兄弟。增加情感内容真实性的拉斐尔前派运动的结合吸引了山。山倡导在美国拉斐尔前派的绘画方法，但有自己的理想少着迷。1863年，艺术评论家克拉伦斯·库克，地质学家克拉伦斯·金，和建筑师拉塞尔斯特吉斯，希尔协助建立了社会为真相的艺术地位。[1]对于希尔的余生，他集中大部分的山区在景观，新英格兰和纽约州的地区。希尔的绘画和雕刻中的藏品中发现布鲁克林博物馆中，阿蒙·卡特博物馆，福格博物馆的艺术胡德博物馆和大都会艺术博物馆。

Hill is the son of the United States flying dust engraver John - Hill. He moved with his parents from London to the United States in 1819, initially living in Philadelphia. In 1822, the family moved to New York, where the apprentice hill was flying dust in his father's shop.
Hill married Catherine Smith in 1838 - their children included the astronomer, the painter, the painter, and the painter, the painter, the man, and the man, the artist, and the artist, and then by the artist, and then by the artist.
Dust in watercolor and prints, Hill uses stippling technology, made the establishment of mininature common small strokes, the process gently graduation color plane. A comparison of the results of a larger canvas with a comparison of the common romantic works of the mid nineteenth Century American painting. In 1829, at the age of 17, Hill began to display in his father's studio at the Broolyn Art Association and the production of watercolor paintings and prints of the National Academy of design. In 1833, at the age of 21, Hill was elected member of the National Academy of design association.
In the early days of his twenty year, he began working for the New York geological survey, the first to create a series of topographical studies and principles of urban and urban spending in the United states. This work is different from the perspective of the Arial font and record minutes of architectural detail of its accuracy. The city needs to travel frequently on these portraits to observe, sketch, and create a watercolor painting prior to the study of the map. Then, the watercolor painting has been rebuilt as color lithographic art and the Smith brothers, released in New York city publisher.
Hill works with the New York geological survey, his illustrations continue after the New York of James Ellsworthdeke, or animals; new - New York. In the second part, the bird was published in 1844 as a bird portrait of John James Audubon, and Hill was painted with an objective eye that records the exact anatomical structure and color and captures the natural face of the animal.
But in the modern painters of his early forty mountain reading John Ruskin, and fascinated by the pre Raphaelite brotherhood. With the increase of emotional content the authenticity of the pre Raphaelite movement attracted mountain. Mountain advocate in the pre Raphaelite painting of the United States, but has its own ideal with less. In 1863, Clarence Cook, an art critic, geologist, Clarence Kim, and architect, the author of the book, helped establish the social status of the arts for the truth, and in the works of the artist, the artist, the architect of the age of. [1] for the rest of Hill's life, he concentrated most of the mountains in the landscape, new England and New York. Amon Carter Broolyn Museum, the museum found that Hill's painting and sculpture in the collection, Fogg Museum of Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art hood.