Hillyard, Henry, 1803?-1873

Person

Biography

Hillyard was the scene painter at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh in the late 1820s and early 1830s; he executed at least one panorama - 'Napoleon Buonaparte in Egypt' (1830) - for the New Rotunda on the Mound. The sixth Symbolae Scoticae album includes a series of 9 annotated sketches by Hillyard (Coll-10/6/133 - Coll-10/6/141) for an apparently unrealised panorama of the Clyde, gifted to Adam White by Henry Eyre. As White notes (Coll-10/4/57) Hillyard subsequently emigrated to the United States, where he enjoyed a successful career in New York theatre.

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[Sketches for a Panorama of the Clyde, 9], undated

piece

Identifier: Coll-10/6/141

Scope and Contents

[Sketches for a Panorama of the Clyde, 9]. Pen and ink wash. Undated. Hillyard, Henry, 1803?-1873, Artist; Eyre, Henry James, 1807-1894, Donor.

Note: The last in a series of 9 annotated sketches by Hillyard (Coll-10/6/133 - Coll-10/6/141) for an apparently unrealised panorama of the Clyde.

Dates: undated

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 6. Stirling, Lanark (Glasgow), Renfrew, Dunbarton

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Subject: Glasgow Bridge (Glasgow, Scotland) X