Robert Alexander Hillingford (!828-1904), was an English painter who specialised in historical pictures, often battle scenes. Hillingford was born in London on 28 January 1828, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf for five years from 1841. He travelled to Munich, Rome, Florence and Naples, where worked for several years, producing paintings of Italian life. He returned to London in 1864 and first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1866. It was at this time that he began to work on historical subjects, especially of the Napoleonic Wars. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, British Institution and at other galleries. This artwork would have been painted in approx the 1860s, whe he had returned to London and when many form his country were travelling to Australia.A print from a water colour by Robert Alexander Hillingford called ' Emigrants to South Australia '. Original is from The Rex Nan Kivell collection, National Library of Australia.Robert Alexander Hillingfordprint, watercolour, australian landscape, watercolour paintings, early colonial life. emigrants, south australia