Hamilton Hamilton Art

American, 1847-1928

Hamilton Hamilton was a painter and etcher known mostly for his landscapes of the American West. Born in Oxford, England, in 1847, he lived most of his life in the Eastern United States. He painted landscapes in New York, Connecticut, the American West, England, and France. He also painted portraits and drew illustrations.

While young, Hamilton was a protégé of John Ruskin. In 1872, he began his mostly self-taught career as a portrait artist in Buffalo, New York. He created 47 landscape paintings during an 1873 expedition to Colorado which were chosen to be part of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. He spent 1878 and 1879 painting in Pont-Aven, Brittany, alongside Barbizon School painters.

Hamilton moved to New York City in 1881 and shortly after began to practice genre painting and etching. He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1886 and a National Academician in 1889. Until the end of the century, he and his family resided alternately in upstate New York, Long Island, Colorado, and England.

In 1907 and 1908, Hamilton spent two years painting landscapes in Southern California. Later, he and his family permanently moved to Norwalk, Connecticut. There he became involved with the Silvermine group of artists led by Solon Borglum. After Borglum's death, he and others founded the Silvermine Guild of Artists. At the time of his death, Hamilton was known as the dean of the group. He used multiple layers of colors to execute his landscapes, suggesting the influence of Impressionism.

Hamilton married Helen McIlhenney (sister of artist Charles Morgan McIlhenney). In 1889, they had twin daughters, Helen and Marguerite, who served as his models. Both daughters grew up to be artists; Helen in particular became a noted Post-Impressionist landscape painter.

Hamilton died in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1928. His works are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Phoenix Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Akron Art Museum and the East Hampton Historical Society.

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Artist: Hamilton Hamilton

Hamilton HamiltonOil on Canvas Depicting William Shakespeare's Characters "Othello & Desdemona", Circa 1921

$34,500

Oil on Canvas Depicting William Shakespeare's Characters "Othello & Desdemona"

By Hamilton Hamilton

Located in LA, CA

Hamilton Hamilton (American, 1847-1928) A large and impressive oil on canvas "Othello and Desdemona" after the William Shakespeare's play "Othello", depicting a young Desdemona pleading with an enraged Othello, and perhaps Iago is the seated figure, within a giltwood craquelure finished frame. Signed (l/r): H. Hamilton, 1921 . Canvas Height: 67 inches (170.2 cm) Canvas Width: 48 inches (121.9 cm) Frame Height: 75 inches (190.5 cm) Frame Width: 57 inches (144.8 cm) Frame Depth: 2 inches (5.1 cm) Hamilton Hamilton (1 April 1847 – 4 January 1928) was a painter and etcher, known mostly for his landscapes of the American West. Born in Oxford, England, he lived most of his life in the Eastern United States. He painted landscapes in New York, Connecticut, the American West, England, and France. He also painted portraits and drew illustrations. Artistic career Hamilton Hamilton was born in Oxford, England, on 1 April 1847. While young, he was a protégé of John Ruskin. In 1872, he began his mostly self-taught career as a portrait artist in Buffalo, New York. He created 47 landscape paintings during an 1873 expedition to Colorado which were chosen to be part of the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. He spent 1878 and 1879 painting in Pont-Aven, Brittany, alongside Barbizon School painters. He moved to New York City in 1881 and shortly after began to practice genre painting and etching.[6] He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1886 and a National Academician in 1889. Until the end of the century, he and his family resided alternately in upstate New York, Long Island, Colorado, and England.[6] In 1907 and 1908, Hamilton spent two years painting landscapes in Southern California. In 1912 he and his family permanently moved to Norwalk, Connecticut. There he became involved with the Silvermine group of artists led by Solon Borglum...

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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Wood, Oil

Hamilton Hamilton"Fetch It, Sir" original etching, 1888

$100

"Fetch It, Sir" original etching

By Hamilton Hamilton

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original etching. This impression was printed in 1888 for the "Ten Original Etchings by the Best American Artists" portfolio and published by Estes and Lauriat. Image size: 1...

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1880s Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Etching

Hamilton HamiltonTwo Girls

$19,800

Two Girls

By Hamilton Hamilton

Located in Milford, NH

A beautiful full portrait of two girls, possibly the artist's daughters, with spring flowers by British American artist Hamilton Hamilton (1847-1928). Hamilton was born in Oxford, En...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

Gordon Stevenson"Reading in the Study" Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting Woman in Pink Dress, 1917

$28,000Sale Price|20% Off

H 60 in W 36 in D 3 in

"Reading in the Study" Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting Woman in Pink Dress

Located in New York, NY

An Early 20th Century elegant portrait oil painting by Gordon Stevenson depicting a pensive young woman seated in a serene, indoor setting wearing a l...

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1910s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Oil, Canvas

Lu HaskewTake Me Home, 12x8" oil, framed, 1999

$600

H 19 in W 16 in D 2 in

Take Me Home, 12x8" oil, framed

By Lu Haskew

Located in Loveland, CO

"Take me Home" by Lu Haskew Oil 19x16" framed, 12x8" image size Signed lower left A young child very apparently ready to go home from their intense yet cute look. The child is weari...

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Early 2000s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

Charles KinghanPortrait of a Man in Armchair, Mid Century Short Story Illustration, 1937

$2,120Sale Price|20% Off

H 24 in W 30 in D 0.75 in

Portrait of a Man in Armchair, Mid Century Short Story Illustration

By Charles Kinghan

Located in Soquel, CA

Excellent figurative oil painting of a man seated in an armchair with papers strewn about the interior space by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 18...

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1930s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Linen, Oil

William John HennessyPortrait of the Artist's Daughters, American Impressionism Painting, Signed, Circa 1880

$6,994

H 13 in W 9.26 in

Portrait of the Artist's Daughters, American Impressionism Painting, Signed

By William John Hennessy

Located in PARIS, FR

William John Hennessy Thomastown 1839 - Rudgwick 1917 Portrait of the Artist's Daughters Circa 1880 Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard Signed bottom left 33 x 23.5 cm canvas 44 x ...

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1880s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Irving Ramsey Wiles"Glad and Rhododendron" Irving Ramsey Wiles, American Impressionist Portrait, circa 1927

$40,000

H 58 in W 52 in

"Glad and Rhododendron" Irving Ramsey Wiles, American Impressionist Portrait

By Irving Ramsey Wiles

Located in New York, NY

Irving Ramsey Wiles Glad and Rhododendron, circa 1927 Inscribed indistinctly with title (on the turnover) Oil on canvas 46 x 40 inches Provenance The artist Estate of the artist Hir...

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1920s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

Walter BiggsImpressionist Portrait of African American Family, Signed, 18x22, c. 1950s

$12,000

H 24 in W 28 in

Impressionist Portrait of African American Family, Signed, 18x22

Located in Fredericksburg, VA

This impressionist painting by Virginia artist Walter Biggs captures a moment of quiet strength and familial connection. A seated man rests outside with his hat in hand, while a youn...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

Sol JasnerMid Century Garden Portrait of a Woman in Lavender, c.1960s

$520Sale Price|20% Off

H 18 in W 24 in D 0.25 in

Mid Century Garden Portrait of a Woman in Lavender

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful impressionist mid-century portrait of a woman in a garden setting by Philadelphia artist Sol Jasner (American, 20th Century). The woman has short hair and is wearing a lovely lavender colored blouse, and she is surrounded by lush greenery with a cluster of grapes growing on the vine in the background. Signed "Sol Jasner" on verso. Unframed. Canvas size: 18"H x 24"W. A mid-century Philadelphia artist and art educator active in the 1960’s, Sol Jasner taught art classes alongside his contemporary Philadelphia artist Martin Zipin.

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

Jan Hanson TravisPortrait of Girl in Blue Dress, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1970, 1970

$1,050Sale Price|30% Off

H 17 in W 15 in D 2 in

Portrait of Girl in Blue Dress, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1970

By Jan Hanson Travis

Located in Soquel, CA

Portrait of Girl in Blue Dress, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1970 Beautiful portrait of a young girl in blue dress by Jan Hanson Travis (American, ...

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1970s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Oil, Canvas, Stretcher Bars

Joseph Newman"The Red Dress"

$45,625

H 52 in W 44 in D 2 in

"The Red Dress"

By Joseph Newman

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Joseph Newman (1890 - 1979) Joseph Newman was born in New York City in 1890. He attended the Pratt Institute and the Adelphi College Art School, and served in the U.S. Army during WWW1. After the war, he married and traveled to Europe. He returned to New York in the mid 1920's, and with a group of contemporaries formed The Fifteen Gallery in Manhattan. Newman painted a broad variety of subjects including genre scenes, landscapes, figurative works, and equestrian subjects. He worked in various styles ranging from academic realism to a looser, post-impressionist approach, and is best known for colorful, animated genre scenes painted in and around Rockport Harbor and as far west as Taos, New Mexico. He exhibited frequently at the Brooklyn Museum, The National Academy, The Carnegie Institute, The Whitney and The Society of Independent Artists. He was a member of the L.C. Tiffany Foundation, The Salmagundi Club, Rockport Art Association, and the American Watercolor Society. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, The Newark Museum, the Boston Library...

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20th Century American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

Alethea Hill Platt"The Conversation, France" Alethea Hill Platt, American Artist, Interior Scene, circa 1915

$1,500

H 13 in W 15 in

"The Conversation, France" Alethea Hill Platt, American Artist, Interior Scene

Located in New York, NY

Althea Platt The Conversation, France, circa 1915 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Alethea Hill Platt was an American artist and educator. Her paintings of rural lands...

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1910s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

Ken DeWaardUltra Realist Library Still-Life Books and Candles "Little Devil in the Details", 1999

$2,120Sale Price|20% Off

H 20 in W 21 in D 2 in

Ultra Realist Library Still-Life Books and Candles "Little Devil in the Details"

By Ken DeWaard

Located in Soquel, CA

Ultra Realist Library Still-Life Books and Candles "Little Devil in the Details" Highly detailed library interior scene and still-life titled "Little Devil in the Detail" by Ken DeWaard (American, 20th-century). This intriguing artists performance in excellence piece, features realistically rendered books, paintings within paintings, candle light, and a devil or gargoyle sculpture. The artist creates a strong mood as well as interesting subject matter in this unique scene. Signed "Dewaard '99" upper right. Displayed in a wood frame. Image size, 13"H x 14"L. Frame: 20"H x 21"W x 2"D After receiving his Bachelor of Arts with honors, Ken began working in a commercial art studio in Chicago. He continued his studies at the American Academy of Art, where he studied with nationally recognized watercolorist, Irving Shapiro. Upon Irving's recommendation Ken joined the acclaimed Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Art in Chicago, where he soon began studying with Scott Burdick as well as Dan Gerhartz...

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1990s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Masonite, Oil

Donald S. VogelGreenhouse in Bloom, 1979

$45,000

H 70 in W 80 in

Greenhouse in Bloom

By Donald S. Vogel

Located in Dallas, TX

The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...

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1970s American Impressionist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Oil

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Hamilton Hamilton"Lake Landscape" Hamilton Hamilton, Hudson River School View, 1886

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H 33.5 in W 47.5 in

"Lake Landscape" Hamilton Hamilton, Hudson River School View

By Hamilton Hamilton

Located in New York, NY

Hamilton Hamilton Lake Landscape, 1886 Initialed and dated lower right Oil on canvas 22 x 36 inches Of Scottish descent and born in Oxford, England, Hamilton Hamilton became a renowned American landscape and portrait painter and illustrator. He traveled widely, which meant that his landscape subjects included France, England, the American West, and the states of New York and Connecticut where he was one of the founders of the Silvermine Art Guild in Norwalk. Hamilton Hamilton emigrated with his family to Cowlesville, New York, a rural community near Buffalo, when he was a child, but he spent most of his life in Connecticut except for a few years around 1910 when he lived in Pasadena, California for his health. He was largely self-taught and pursued his artistic talents in spite of his parents' lack of encouragement. However, in 1870, they financially supported his travels to Europe including France, where he studied in Paris. After two years, he was forced to return home to help support his family, which he did by opening a portrait studio in 1872. The next year he made a sketching trip West to Colorado and spent much of the summer and winter there, completing forty-seven paintings, some of them shocking to viewers who perceived an indiscriminate piling on of color, likely influenced by Impressionism. Hamilton Hamilton continued painting in New York State, but his Colorado paintings stood out as being unique and were chosen as entries at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. In 1878-79, Hamilton Hamilton returned to France where he painted in the art community in Pont-Aven, Brittany with painters who identified with the Barbizon School and the revolutionary plein-air method of painting. In 1879, he returned to the West, painting more landscapes. In 1881, he moved to New York City, and he rented space at Sherwood Studios on West 57th Street where his friends were Thomas Moran, Robert Blum, Winslow Homer, William Merritt Chase and Birge Harrison. By 1889, he was a full member of the National Academy of Design, and this same year he had twin daughters born. One of them, Helen, trained by her father became a recognized post-impressionist landscape painter. In 1895, Hamilton Hamilton was in England, painting along the Cornish Coast. Returning to New York State, he painted on Long Island and in Peerskill, New York. In the mid-1890s, he became active in the artist colony of Silvermine, a town between Norwalk and New Canaan, Connecticut. Sculptor Solon Borglum...

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1880s Hudson River School Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

Hamilton Hamilton19th Century California Vista, 1873

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H 13 in W 17 in D 2 in

19th Century California Vista

By Hamilton Hamilton

Located in Buffalo, NY

An oil on canvas by Hamilton Hamilton. Housed in the original frame and very impressive in person. Signed lower right. Image size, 12"L x 8"H.

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19th Century American Realist Hamilton Hamilton Art

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Canvas, Oil

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