Derek Hill, 83, British artist

[T.E. Goodell]

LONDON (AP) - Derek Hill, an English artist who did much of his later work on
Ireland's remote Tory Island, died Sunday at age 83.

Hill's stage work include costume designs for ``Castor and Pollux'' at the
Oxford University Opera Club in 1935, the ballet ``The Lord of Burleigh'' at
Sadler's Wells in London in 1937 and ``Il Trovatore'' at Covent Garden in 1947.

He spent a year painting in Ireland in the late 1940s, and later bought a house
in County Donegal. He donated the house and a collection of art to the nation
in 1981, and moved into a cottage nearby.

In 1956, he began to spend much of his time on Tory Island, based in a
primitive hut, painting both the rugged landscape and the people.

Hill was made an honorary citizen of Ireland in 1999.

He twice painted portraits of Prince Charles, and the two men occasionally
painted together. 0Other portrait subjects included Earl Mountbatten, Bernard
Berenson, Yehudi Menuhin, Michael Tippett, John Betjeman and Frederick Ashton.