biografía de Hamilton HAMILTON (1847-1928)

Lugar de nacimiento: Oxford, England

Lugar de defunción: Norwalk, CT

Direcciones: NYC; Peekskill, NY (c.1896-1909); Pasadena, CA (1910-11); Norwalk, CT (1912-on)

Profesión: Landscape and genre painter

Estudios: in Paris, 1870-72

Exposiciones: NAD, 1881-1905, 1911-12, 1928; Brooklyn AA, 1881-84; PAFA, 1881-89; Boston AC, 1881-82; AIC, 1889, 1891, 1896, 1913.

Asociaciones: ANA, 1886; NA, 1889; AWCS; Century Assoc.; Silvermine Guild of Artists, Norwalk (founder).

Obra: Albright-Knox AG, Buffalo, NY.

Comentarios: Primarily known for his landscapes, Hamilton established a portrait studio in Buffalo in 1872. He returned to France c.1878-79, staying at artists' colony in Pont Avon, Brittany. Around 1895, he was painting along England"s Cornish coast where he may have met John Ruskin. Beginning in the mid 1890s, he painted around Peekskill, NY and East Hampton, Long Island; however, after 1912 his home was Norwalk, CT, where he was one of the founders of the Silvermine artists" colony.

Fuentes: WW27; Hughes, Artists in California, 232; Krane, The Wayward Muse, 190; East Hampton: The 19th Century Artists' Paradise; Falk, Exh. Record Series.