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Circa :1860-1870
Description :"The Soothsayer" by Robert Hillingford born at Clapham, Surrey, in 1825, the first son of an Officer. He was introduced to art at a very young age and by the time he was six he was studying drawing under an English artist, in Boulogne where he spent much of his early life. Around 1840, Hillingford went to study at the Academy schools in Dusseldorf, under Karl Ferdinand Sohn, where he continued until 1845, before leaving for Munich. He moved on to many Italian cities including, Venice, Florence, Naples and Rome where he spent in the region of sixteen years here. It was in Rome that Hillingford became a member of the German Artists Club and later met his future wife Chiara. They returned to England in 1864. Hillingford moved to Kensington in the same year, where he continued his work. He exhibited at the British Institute. In 1866, he made his debut at the Royal Academy and continued to exhibit there including the years of until 1902. Hillingford died in Hammersmith in 1904. Hillingford was one of many practitioners of the new genre of anecdotal history painting (painting of history fused with genre painting/scenes of everyday life) in the 19th century and drew much of his subject matter from British and French history. During the 1860s and 1870s, Hillingford painted many scenes from Shakespeare's plays and exhibited at least three works based on the play Othello, two of which date to 1869.

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Measurements :12"H X 16.5"W