Early Life
Vernon Hill was born in 1887 Halifax, Yorkshire. Hill began formal training in print-making at an early age; at the age 13 Hill was apprenticed to a lithographer. About 1908, at the age of 21, Hill moved to London and took up poster illustration. He worked under John Hassall, a poster designer and illustrator.
From 1909-1914 Hill had received commissions for work as an illustrator projects. He created Art Nouveau illustrations for Stephen Phillips The New Inferno in 1911 and the Richard Pearse Chope's Ballads Weird and Wonderful the following year. In 1912 one of his works was exhibited at the Royal Academy. His etchings work was summed up by Campbell Fine Arts as follows:
The distinctive allegorical etchings of Vernon Hill are all now scarce. His highly evocative work appears to have evolved entirely independently from the trends of his time, although overtones of the mysticism which so influenced Frederick Carter and Austin Osman Spare can be traced in some of his works.
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