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Eva Henrietta Hamilton

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| birth_date = {{birth-date|28 June 1876}}

| birth_place = Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland

| death_date = {{death-date|1960}}

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| known_for = painting

| training = Metropolitan School of Art, Slade School of Fine Art

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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.({{Harvnb|Kelly|2005| p=55}}) Eva was the great-granddaughter of the artist Marianne-Caroline Hamilton.({{Harvnb|Sawyer|1993| p=66}}) Eva and her sister Letitia painted, exhibited and travelled together. Eva specialised in portraiture, particularly of children. She turned to landscape painting when she moved to Castleknock.

Eva was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin.{{Citation |title=Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876-1960) |url=http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6682318 |work=liveauctioneers.com }} She began exhibiting with the Water Colour Society of Ireland (WCSI) at the age of 22. 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. In 1904 she showed two portraits of her sisters at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). She exhibited around 120 works at the Royal Hibernian Academy from 1904 to 1945, and also at the Irish International Exhibition in 1907. She belonged to the Ladies' Athenaeum Club in London although she was mainly based in Dublin. She also exhibited in London, Paris and Philadelphia.The Dictionary of British Women Artists, Sara Gray p.128

She painted such people as Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory.{{Citation |title=Self Portrait, c.1906 |url=http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6682318 |work=liveauctioneers.com }} The National Gallery bought an oil painting of hers, called Rose Dorothy Brooke for £1,806.25, in 1997.{{Citation |title=Dáil Éireann - Volume 408 - 21 May 1991 |url=http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0408/D.0408.199105210003.html |work=oireachtas.ie |access-date=15 October 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922040149/http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/D/0408/D.0408.199105210003.html |archive-date=22 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}

She has a piece at the Model Arts Centre in Sligo.({{Harvnb|Greenwood|Connolly|Wallis|2003| p=537}})

Works

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  • Moret sur Loing.{{Cite web|title=Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960 |url=http://www.mpfa.ie/irgallery.htm |work=mpfa.ie }}
  • Ceilidh at Dunboyne, 1919.{{Citation |title=Ceilidh at Dunboyne, 1919 |url=http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=165ECFF95B00E25C |work=artnet.com }}
  • Summer's day in the west.{{Citation |title=Summer's day in the west |url=http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=D196AD66967469BD |work=artnet.com }}
  • The canal bridge.{{Citation |title=The canal bridge |url=http://www.artnet.com/Artists/LotDetailPage.aspx?lot_id=92AA038D9B009D27 |work=artnet.com }}
  • View over Sligo Bay.{{Citation |title=View over Sligo Bay (Looking towards Lisadell and Benbulben Bay) |url=http://www.adams.ie/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=3082&LotRef=46 |work=adams.ie |access-date=2010-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721123120/http://www.adams.ie/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=3082&LotRef=46 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}
  • Children on a grassy sand bank.{{Citation |title=Children on a grassy sand bank |url=http://www.adams.ie/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=3082&LotRef=47 |work=adams.ie |access-date=2010-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721123132/http://www.adams.ie/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=3082&LotRef=47 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}
  • Fiesole.{{Citation |title=Fiesole |url=http://www.adams.ie/BidCat/detail.asp?SaleRef=3089&LotRef=20 |work=adams.ie |access-date=2010-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721123204/http://www.adams.ie/BidCat/detail.asp?SaleRef=3089&LotRef=20 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}
  • Cottage in the West.{{Citation |title=Cottage in the West |url=http://data.bidmaster.co.uk/devere/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=A28&LotRef=13 |work=bidmaster.co.uk |access-date=2010-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110814075603/http://data.bidmaster.co.uk/devere/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=A28&LotRef=13 |archive-date=2011-08-14 |url-status=dead }}
  • SELF PORTRAIT, c.1906.{{Citation |title=Self Portrait, c.1906 |url=http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6682318 |work=liveauctioneers.com }}; {{Citation |title=Self Portrait, c.1906 |url=http://www.whytes.ie/4PrintCatalogue.asp?Auction=20090928 |work=whytes.ie }}
  • On the Malahide Shore, 1921.{{Cite web |title=Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876-1960)| url=http://www.whytes.ie/4PrintCatalogue.asp?Auction=20030429 |work=whytes.ie }}
  • FOREST WITH STREAM AND BRIDGE.{{Citation |title=FOREST WITH STREAM AND BRIDGE |url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/attributed-to-eva-henrietta-hamilton-1876-1960-92-c-4934292cf6 |work=artfact.com }}
  • Achill Street Scene.{{Citation |title=Achill Street |url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/eva-henrietta-hamilton-1876-1960-achill-street-zpv77rlw9d-0-m-csxn7mwz53 |work=artfact.com }}; {{Citation |title=Achill Street Scene |url=http://www.whytes.ie/OnlineCatalogue2.asp?Auction=20080428&offset=60 |work=whytes.ie }}
  • Portrait of her Sister Amy.{{Citation |title=Portrait of her Sister Amy|url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/eva-henrietta-hamilton-1876-1960-portrait-of-he-zpv77rlw9d-0-m-5cb165323f |work=artfact.com }}; {{Citation |title=Portrait of her Sister Amy|url=http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/eva-henrietta-hamilton-1876-1960-portrait-of-he-zpv77rlw9d-5-m-3ioff4v154 |work=artfact.com }}
  • Children at Portmarnock{{Citation |title=Children at Portmarnock |url=http://www.adams.ie/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=3076&LotRef=90 |work=adams.ie |access-date=2010-10-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721123216/http://www.adams.ie/bidcat/detail.asp?SaleRef=3076&LotRef=90 |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}
  • Holy Island from Mountshannon House, County Claire, 1947.{{Citation |title=Holy Island from Mountshannon House, County Claire, 1947 |url=http://www.whytes.ie/4PrintCatalogue.asp?Auction=20060221 |work=whytes.ie }}
  • A cottage on the Irish coast oil on board.{{Citation |title=A cottage on the Irish coast oil on board |url=http://www.hollowaysauctioneers.co.uk/catalogues/af240707/page9.htm |work=hollowaysauctioneers.co.uk }}
  • Portrait of a girl standing {{Citation |title=Portrait of a girl standing |url=http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2573708 |work=liveauctioneers.com }}
  • Under a shady tree {{Citation |title=Under a shady tree |url=http://www.christies.com/lotfinderimages/d49029/d4902987x.jpg |work=christies.com }}
  • Castleknock {{Citation |title=Eva Henrietta Hamilton search |url=http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/searchresults.aspx?entry=Eva+Henrietta+Hamilton&searchtype=p |work=christies.com }}
  • Sheep in a Meadow.
  • Mother and child.
  • Driving Cattle at Ash Hill, the Maynooth to Dunboyne Road.
  • The canal bridge.
  • Girl on a Beach.
  • Maynooth from the Duke's Pool on the Rye Water River, Co Kildare.
  • The Estuary, Malahide{{Citation |title=The Estuary, Malahide |url=http://whytes.com/4PrintCatalogue.asp?Auction=20030429 |work=whytes.com }}

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Footnotes

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References

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|last=Kelly

|first=John S.

|editor1=John Kelly

|editor2=Ronald Schuchard

|title=The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats: 1905-1907

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7phtpwywiIC

|volume=4

|year=2005

|publisher=Oxford University Press

|isbn=978-0-19-812684-3

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  • {{Citation

|editor1=National Gallery of Ireland

|editor1-link=National Gallery of Ireland

|editor2=Douglas Hyde Gallery

|editor2-link=Douglas Hyde Gallery

|editor3=Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art

|editor3-link=Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art

|title=Irish women artists: from the eighteenth century to the present day

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kenVAAAAMAAJ

|year=1987

|publisher=National Gallery of Ireland

|isbn=978-0-903162-40-1

|oclc=16081461

|chapter=Eva Henrietta Hamilton

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kenVAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Eva+Henrietta+Hamilton%22

|postscript=.

}}

  • {{Citation

|title=The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cVJmAAAAMAAJ

|year=1994

|publisher=Genealogical Pub. Co.

|isbn=978-0-8063-1436-5

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  • {{Citation

|last=Sawyer

|first=Roger

|title="We are but women": women in Ireland's history

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGrElbD7wtwC

|year=1993

|publisher=Routledge

|isbn=978-0-415-05866-7

|chapter=Irish Cultural Revival

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UGrElbD7wtwC&pg=PA66

|postscript=.

}}

  • {{Citation

|editor1-last=Greenwood

|editor1-first=Margaret

|editor2-first=Mark |editor2-last=Connolly

|editor3-first=Geoff |editor3-last=Wallis

|title=Rough guide to Ireland

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLHgtXEUfXgC

|year=2003

|isbn=978-1-84353-059-6

|chapter=The Model Arts Centre

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZLHgtXEUfXgC&pg=PA537

|postscript=.

}}

External links

  • {{Cite web|title=Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960 |url=http://www.mpfa.ie/irgallery.htm |work=mpfa.ie }}
  • {{Cite web|title=Eva Henrietta Hamilton 1876-1960 |url=http://www.artfact.com/artist/hamilton-eva-henrietta-zpv77rlw9d |work=artfact.com }}
  • {{Art UK bio}}

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Category:1876 births

Category:1960 deaths

Category:Irish women artists

Category:Alumni of the National College of Art and Design

Category:People educated at Alexandra College

Category:Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art

Category:Artists from County Meath

Category:People from Dunboyne

Category:19th-century Irish painters

Category:20th-century Irish painters