DETAILS
- Artist
- David Octavius Hill
- Date
- 1826
- Location
- Perth Art Gallery
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THE ARTIST
David Octavius Hill
David Octavius Hill, a pioneering Scottish artist, captured the dramatic founding of the Free Church of Scotland through the then-new medium of photography, forever changing portraiture.
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