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=Hilda Hechle= Hechle was an English painter and mountain climber.

She mainly painted mountains in the Swiss Alps, bringing her supplies with her on her climbs. Alongside her landscape paintings, she was also a portrait painter and illustrator.

She mainly painted scenes of mountains

Hechle worked with watercolors, and often painted mountains based on her climbs in the High Alps.

Exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1906 and 1931. Died in April of 1939. 

Work was exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada

Born 1886 in Brassington Hall, Ashborne, Derby. Died in 1939 in Surrey. Painted landscapes and people, and was an illustrator. Studied at St. John's Wood School of Art and Royal Academies.

In 1925, she had a studio in St. John's Wood in London. In 1927, she had a studio in Swiss Cottage in London.

She lived with her father in Llandrillo yn Rhos in Colwyn Bay, Wales. Her maternal aunt was Mary L. Breakell, a landscape and portrait artist. Hechle began creating art at a young age, exhibiting her art in Liverpool at the age of 15. She and her father later went to Switzerland so that she could create art of the landscapes in Lucerne. They then moved to Meiringen, where she began painting mountains in earnest.

Her work was exhibited at the Alpine Club in England. She went on climbs with her father.

Selected works

 * Old Proverbs With New Pictures (c. 1881)p182

Selected works

 * All Around the Clock, written by Robert Ellice Mack (1886, E. P. Dutton & Co)
 * Queen of the Meadow (1887, E. P. Dutton & Co)
 * When All is Young, written by Robert Ellice Mack (1888, E. P. Dutton & Co)
 * Old Father Time and His Twelve Children, edited by Robert Ellice Mack (1890, E. P. Dutton & Co)
 * Over the Hills Away!, written by Frederick E. Weatherley (1891, Hildesheimer and Faulkner)
 * A Book of Poems and Pastorals, co-illustrated by Alice Havers and Gertrude Hammond (1892)