Hamilton Hamilton Oil Painting on Canvas Figural Landscape

Item Details

An oil painting on canvas figural landscape by Hamilton Hamilton (Scottish, 1847-1928). Two women in Victorian dress appear in the center of a vast forest landscape scene with substantial trees and verdant foliage. The figures rest along a dirt path. Signed to the lower right, ‘Hamilton Hamilton.’ Presented in a gilt and gesso wood Barbizon frame with laurel leaf and berry top moulding, ornate leaf and vine cove moulding, and several ornate liners, without glass.

Hamilton Hamilton born in Oxford, England in 1847. As a young child he moved to New York with his family and would spend most of his life in Connecticut. He was largely self taught, especially in his younger years, but was able to travel to Europe in 1870 to study in Paris and travel. in 1872, he opened a portrait studio to help support his family and traveled out west the next year completing a number of landscape paintings and sketches for future works. Hamilton spent much of his life traveling, drawing great influence from the Barbizon school and Western landscapes. He exhibited at 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia and in 1889 he became a full member of the National Academy of Design. Recognized as a post-impressionist landscape painter, Hamilton became one of the founders of the Silvermine Guild of Artists.

Condition

- the painting is very clean; craquelure present to the gesso frame with scratches and marks present throughout.

Dimensions

- measures the frame; canvas size 16" W x 26" H.

Item #

17DCC175-636