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Hugh Douglas Hamilton

Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1739 - 1808) was active/lived in United Kingdom, England, Ireland.  Hugh Hamilton is known for Aristocratic portrait and narrative painting.

Hugh Douglas Hamilton (c.1739-1808)

The Irish portrait painter Hugh Douglas Hamilton was born in Dublin, Ireland around 1724, the son of a peruke-maker.  He studied drawing and painting under Robert West at the Royal Dublin Society art school in George's Lane, winning several awards, after which he began to specialize in small-scale portraiture in crayon and pastels. Typically oval in shape, his portraits were some 9 inches by 7 inches in size, outlined on grey paper in black and white and completed with coloured chalks.  In general, his colour schemes were very simple, but his faces were always well-drawn, with expressive eyes.

In about 1764, Hamilton moved to London and gained rapid recognition for his narrative oil paintings (eg. Boadicea and her Daughters in Distress).  He also painted a number of full-length portraits in crayons, which he duly exhibited at the Free Society of Artists.
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Triple portrait of Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765–1815), as the three Muses

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Portrait of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (1753-1801), small full-length, in a yellow frock coat and breeches, his left arm resting on a cane, with a coach and four beyond, in a landscape

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Portrait of Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire, wearing a yellow frock coat

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Portrait of a gentleman, traditionally identified as Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire (1753-1801), small full-length, in a yellow frock coat and breeches, his left arm resting on his cane, a coach and four beyond, in a classical landscape

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PORTRAIT OF ANTONIO CANOVA (1757-1822)

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Cries of Dublin and other scenes with figures , 1760

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