Hill was born in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, but moved to Washington, D.C. early in her life.
[1] Beginning in 1922, she also taught alongside Catharine Carter Critcher, who also ran a school in Washington.
[1] In 1908 she showed several pieces at the Bauer-Folsom Gallery in New York City alongside paintings by Emil Carlsen.
She was also a founder of the Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers Society of Washington, of which she served as president in the year of her death.
[1] Hill is buried in the family plot at Rock Creek Cemetery, where she has no marker of her own.