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Thomas Hyde Hills – President of the Pharmaceutical Society 1873-1876

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Description

Portrait in oils of Thomas Hyde Hills (1815-1891), President of the Pharmaceutical Society 1873-1876.
Painted by Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896), RA, in 1873. Framed.

Hills worked ardently for the passage in the 1868 Pharmacy Act by which registration of Pharmaceutical Chemists and Chemists and Druggists became obligatory.

Fact

Millais was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was elected a Royal Academician (RA) in 1863 and became President of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1896.
Millais was personal friend of Hills and the painting was completed in three hours.