Eva Henrietta Hamilton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 June 1876 |
| Died | 1960 |
| Education | Metropolitan School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | painting |
Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876–1960), an Irish artist, was a portrait, landscape, and watercolour painter.
Life
Eva Henrietta Hamilton was born in Dunboyne, County Meath. She was a daughter of Charles Robert Hamilton of Hamwood, eldest of her sisters Amy (b. 1879) and Letitia Marion, and cousin of Rose Barton, the watercolourist.[1] Eva was the great-granddaughter of the artist Marianne-Caroline Hamilton.[2] Eva and her sister Letitia painted, exhibited and travelled together.[3] Eva specialised in portraiture, particularly of children. She turned to landscape painting when she moved to Castleknock.[1]
Eva was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin.[3] She began exhibiting with the Water Colour Society of Ireland (WCSI) at the age of 22.[3] Eva studied under Sir William Orpen at the Metropolitan School of Art. She went on to study under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Fine Art.[3] In 1904 she showed two portraits of her sisters at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA).[3] She exhibited around 120 works at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1904 to 1945, and also at the Irish International Exhibition in 1907.[1][3] She belonged to the Ladies' Athenaeum Club in London although she was mainly based in Dublin. She also exhibited in London, Paris and Philadelphia.[4]
She painted such people as Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory.[5] The National Gallery bought an oil painting of hers, called Rose Dorothy Brooke for £1,806.25, in 1997.[6] She has a piece at the Model Arts Centre in Sligo.[7]
Works
- Moret sur Loing.[8]
- Ceilidh at Dunboyne, 1919.[9]
- Summer's day in the west.[10]
- The canal bridge.[11]
- View over Sligo Bay.[12]
- Children on a grassy sand bank.[13]
- Fiesole.[14]
- Cottage in the West.[15]
- SELF PORTRAIT, c.1906.[16]
- On the Malahide Shore, 1921.[17]
- FOREST WITH STREAM AND BRIDGE.[18]
- Achill Street Scene.[19]
- Portrait of her Sister Amy.[20]
- Children at Portmarnock[21]
- Holy Island from Mountshannon House, County Claire, 1947.[22]
- A cottage on the Irish coast oil on board.[23]
- Portrait of a girl standing [24]
- Under a shady tree [25][26]
- Castleknock [26]
- Sheep in a Meadow.[26]
- Mother and child.[26]
- Driving Cattle at Ash Hill, the Maynooth to Dunboyne Road.[26]
- The canal bridge.[26]
- Girl on a Beach.[26]
- Maynooth from the Duke's Pool on the Rye Water River, Co Kildare.[26]
- The Estuary, Malahide[27]
Footnotes
- 1 2 3 (Kelly 2005, p. 55)
- ↑ (Sawyer 1993, p. 66)
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876-1960)", liveauctioneers.com
- ↑ The Dictionary of British Women Artists, Sara Gray p.128
- ↑ "Self Portrait, c.1906", liveauctioneers.com
- ↑ "Dáil Éireann - Volume 408 - 21 May 1991", oireachtas.ie, archived from the original on 22 September 2012, retrieved 15 October 2010
- ↑ (Greenwood, Connolly & Wallis 2003, p. 537)
- ↑ "Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960". mpfa.ie.
- ↑ "Ceilidh at Dunboyne, 1919", artnet.com
- ↑ "Summer's day in the west", artnet.com
- ↑ "The canal bridge", artnet.com
- ↑ "View over Sligo Bay (Looking towards Lisadell and Benbulben Bay)", adams.ie, archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
- ↑ "Children on a grassy sand bank", adams.ie, archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
- ↑ "Fiesole", adams.ie, archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
- ↑ "Cottage in the West", bidmaster.co.uk, archived from the original on 14 August 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
- ↑ "Self Portrait, c.1906", liveauctioneers.com; "Self Portrait, c.1906", whytes.ie
- ↑ "Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876-1960)". whytes.ie.
- ↑ "FOREST WITH STREAM AND BRIDGE", artfact.com
- ↑ "Achill Street", artfact.com; "Achill Street Scene", whytes.ie
- ↑ "Portrait of her Sister Amy", artfact.com; "Portrait of her Sister Amy", artfact.com
- ↑ "Children at Portmarnock", adams.ie, archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
- ↑ "Holy Island from Mountshannon House, County Claire, 1947", whytes.ie
- ↑ "A cottage on the Irish coast oil on board", hollowaysauctioneers.co.uk
- ↑ "Portrait of a girl standing", liveauctioneers.com
- ↑ "Under a shady tree", christies.com
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Eva Henrietta Hamilton search", christies.com
- ↑ "The Estuary, Malahide", whytes.com
References
- Kelly, John S. (2005), John Kelly; Ronald Schuchard (eds.), The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: 1905-1907, vol. 4, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-812684-3, OCLC 0198126840.
- National Gallery of Ireland; Douglas Hyde Gallery; Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, eds. (1987), "Eva Henrietta Hamilton", Irish women artists: from the eighteenth century to the present day, National Gallery of Ireland, ISBN 978-0-903162-40-1, OCLC 16081461.
- The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1994, ISBN 978-0-8063-1436-5.
- Sawyer, Roger (1993), "Irish Cultural Revival", "We are but women": women in Ireland's history, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-05866-7.
- Greenwood, Margaret; Connolly, Mark; Wallis, Geoff, eds. (2003), "The Model Arts Centre", Rough guide to Ireland, ISBN 978-1-84353-059-6.
External links
- "Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960". mpfa.ie.
- "Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960". artfact.com.
- 1 artwork by or after Eva Henrietta Hamilton at the Art UK site