From 1877 to 1880 he studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, where he was a contemporary of Roderic O'Conor, Walter Osborne, and Joseph Malachy Kavanagh.
During the 1880s he made visits to Brittany in the company of Osborne and O'Conor.
[1] He painted rural scenes, as well as peasants and country imagery.
A fine example of his portrait style - Hill's late 19th Century portrait of the brewer and banker Thomas Plunkett Cairnes - is held at the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
[2][3] This work is one of his portraits of prominent Drogheda citizens of that period.