Object Number: K1032

Collection: Fine Art

Object Name: drawing/watercolour

Title: The Rev. Rowland Hill

Artist: SHARPLES, James Senior

Description: a framed colour drawing on grey paper, showing: a half-length portrait in profile of Reverend Rowland Hill (1744-1833), the evangelical preacher, Calvinist in approach, who avidly preached all around the country; an early supporter of the Sunday School Movement, as a way of extending religious education to the children of the working class, he was an regarded as an eccentric and witty, larger-than-life figure; he also baptised Lord Winterstoke (William Henry Wills, 1830-1911), the philanthropic funder of the building of the Bristol Art Gallery, commenced in 1901, completed in 1904 and opened to the public in 1905 (which later became the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery)