AMERICAN

Hamilton Hamilton - "Path throught the Eucalyptus"

Painting, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 32".

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.

He was largely self-taught and pursued his artistic talents in spite of his parents' lack of encouragement. In 1870, he traveled to Europe, where he studied in Paris. In 1878-79, he 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 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.

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