Amelia Robertson Hill (15 January 1821 – 5 July 1904), birth record Emmilia McDermaid Paton,[1] was a prominent Scottish artist and sculptor throughout the 19th century and one of the few with public commissions.
She was the main female contributor to the statues on the Scott Monument, contributing three figures.
[2] Hill was born in Wooer's Alley, Dunfermline, the daughter of Catherine McDiarmid (d. 1853) and Joseph Neil Paton (1797–1874), a damask designer.
The 1891 census describes Hill as "sculptor, retired" but she exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy until 1902, aged 82.
She died at her house, Newington Lodge, 38 Mayfield Terrace on 5 July 1904 aged 83.