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Hugh Douglas Hamilton 1740-1808
Oil on canvas, in painted oval.
Hamilton was born in Dublin in 1740. He came to London in 1764 and quickly built up a highly successful practice as a portraitist in pastel. His sitters included royalty and politicians which drove his reputation.
In 1779 he travelled to Italy where he spent the next twelve years, occasionally visiting Florence but mainly in Rome. On the advice of John Flaxman he took up oil painting and his small oval portraits of Irish and British visitors were much in demand. Hamilton returned to Dublin in 1791 and remained there until his death in 1808.
This study of a striking young lady has a different and attractive painting of the same sitter on the reverse, revealed when the old lining canvas was removed.
Dimensions
81.3 x 67.6 cms.The BADA Standard
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