George Hilditch

While there he became a pupil of Thomas Christopher Hofland. Hofland encouraged him to pursue a career as a painter and in 1823 he displayed his work for the first time at the age of twenty at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1823 at Somerset House. He exhibited frequently at the Royal Academy and at the Society of Artists over the following decades. Hilditch particularly specialised in producing landscapes from or around Richmond Hill and became known as the "Richmond painter". He also worked in the new art of photography. A number of his works are today in public collections.

• Illustration — Cholmondeley Walk, Richmond • Illustration — View of the South Front of Hampton Court Palace • Illustration — Richmond from Beneath the Railway Arch • Illustration — Picnicking above Greenwich • Illustration — Distant View of Twickenham