Eva Henrietta Hamilton

Eva Henrietta Hamilton
Born 28 June 1876 (1876-06-28)
Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland
Died 1960 (1961)
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. 1 2 3 (Kelly 2005, p. 55)
  2. ↑ (Sawyer 1993, p. 66)
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "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
  7. ↑ (Greenwood 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
  13. ↑ "Children on a grassy sand bank", adams.ie
  14. ↑ "Fiesole", adams.ie
  15. ↑ "Cottage in the West", bidmaster.co.uk
  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
  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. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Eva Henrietta Hamilton search", christies.com
  27. ↑ "The Estuary, Malahide", whytes.com

References

  • Kelly, John S. (2005), John Kelly; Ronald Schuchard, eds., The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: 1905-1907, Volume 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; Mark Connolly; Geoff Wallis, eds. (2003), "The Model Arts Centre", Rough guide to Ireland, ISBN 978-1-84353-059-6.
  • "Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960". mpfa.ie.
  • "Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960". artfact.com.
  • 1 painting by or after Eva Henrietta Hamilton at the Art UK site
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