Landscape

Over the course of his long career, Hamilton Hamilton produced paintings in the Hudson River School, Barbizon, and Impressionist styles. This painting bridges the more expansive and grandiose paintings of the Hudson River School with the quieter, more domestically scaled paintings of artists working in the Barbizon style.

Born in Oxford, England, Hamilton made landscapes, portraits, and illustrations. Largely self-taught, he traveled widely, painting in Europe, the East Coast, and the American West. In 1881, he moved to New York City, renting space on West 57th Street and befriending well-known painters, including Thomas Moran, Winslow Homer, and William Merritt Chase, and becoming a member of the National Academy of Design. Except for a few years around 1910, when Hamilton lived in Pasadena, California, he spent most of his life in Connecticut. Active in the artist colony of Silvermine there, he became a founder of the Silvermine Guild of Artists in 1922.