Amelia Robertson Hill

Amelia Robertson Hill (15 January 1821 – 5 July 1904), birth record Emmilia McDermaid Paton, was a prominent Scottish artist and sculptor throughout the 19th century and one of the few with public commissions. Her most noteworthy works are the statue of David Livingstone in Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh and statue of Robert Burns in Dumfries. She was the main female contributor to the statues on the Scott Monument, contributing three figures.

Life Hill was born in Wooer's Alley, Dunfermline, the daughter of Catherine McDiarmid (d. 1853) and Joseph Neil Paton (1797–1874), a damask designer. Her sister Jemima, born on 11 November 1823. Her brothers were artists Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901) and Waller Hugh Paton (1828–1895).

Principal works

Bust of John Fergus MP, Kirkcaldy Town Hall (1861) Marble bust of Mary Louise, Countess of Elgin, Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa (1863) Marble busts of Rev. Robert Smith Candlish in his role as principal of New College, one of the leaders of the Scottish Disruption, held by the University of Edinburgh (1864 and 1865) Marble bust of Rev. Horatius Bonar, hymn-writer (1865) James Wemyss of Wemyss MP, Fife County Hall (1866) Statue of Robert Burns, Church Place, Dumfries (1881) Bust of Percy Bysshe Shelley, exhibited RSA (1882)