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Eva Henrietta Hamilton

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Eva Henrietta Hamilton
Born28 June 1876 (1876-06-28)
Died1960 (1961)
EducationMetropolitan School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art
Known forpainting

Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876–1960), an Irish artist, was a portrait, landscape, and watercolour painter.

Life

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b c (Kelly 2005, p. 55)
  2. ^ (Sawyer 1993, p. 66)
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876-1960)", liveauctioneers.com
  4. ^ The Dictionary of British Women Artists, Sara Gray p.128
  5. ^ "Self Portrait, c.1906", liveauctioneers.com
  6. ^ "Dáil Éireann - Volume 408 - 21 May 1991", oireachtas.ie, archived from the original on 22 September 2012, retrieved 15 October 2010
  7. ^ (Greenwood, Connolly & Wallis 2003, p. 537)
  8. ^ "Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960". mpfa.ie.
  9. ^ "Ceilidh at Dunboyne, 1919", artnet.com
  10. ^ "Summer's day in the west", artnet.com
  11. ^ "The canal bridge", artnet.com
  12. ^ "View over Sligo Bay (Looking towards Lisadell and Benbulben Bay)", adams.ie, archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
  13. ^ "Children on a grassy sand bank", adams.ie, archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
  14. ^ "Fiesole", adams.ie, archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
  15. ^ "Cottage in the West", bidmaster.co.uk, archived from the original on 14 August 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
  16. ^ "Self Portrait, c.1906", liveauctioneers.com; "Self Portrait, c.1906", whytes.ie
  17. ^ "Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876-1960)". whytes.ie.
  18. ^ "FOREST WITH STREAM AND BRIDGE", artfact.com
  19. ^ "Achill Street", artfact.com; "Achill Street Scene", whytes.ie
  20. ^ "Portrait of her Sister Amy", artfact.com; "Portrait of her Sister Amy", artfact.com
  21. ^ "Children at Portmarnock", adams.ie, archived from the original on 21 July 2011, retrieved 15 October 2010
  22. ^ "Holy Island from Mountshannon House, County Claire, 1947", whytes.ie
  23. ^ "A cottage on the Irish coast oil on board", hollowaysauctioneers.co.uk
  24. ^ "Portrait of a girl standing", liveauctioneers.com
  25. ^ "Under a shady tree", christies.com
  26. ^ a b c d e f g h "Eva Henrietta Hamilton search", christies.com
  27. ^ "The Estuary, Malahide", whytes.com

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