Eva Henrietta Hamilton
Irish artist
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]
^ a b c (Kelly 2005 , p. 55)
^ (Sawyer 1993 , p. 66)
^ a b c d e f "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
^ a b c d e f g h "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
International Artists People