Artist
Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Ireland, 1740–1808
Hugh Douglas Hamilton was an Ireland Neoclassicism artist. 21 works are cataloged here, principally at National Gallery of Ireland. Hugh Douglas Hamilton was born in Dublin.
Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA (c. 1739 – 10 February 1808) was an Irish painter who specialised in portrait painting. He spent considerable periods in London and Rome before returning to Dublin in the early 1790s. Until the mid-1770s, he worked mostly in pastel. His style influenced the English painter Lewis Vaslet (1742–1808).
Works by Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Portrait of Lieutenant Richard Mansergh Saint George (1756/9-1798)
Cupid and Psyche in the Nuptial Bower
Portrait of Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817)
Portrait of John Philpot Curran (1750-1817)
Portrait of Lord Edward FitzGerald (1763-1798)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Portrait of The Hon. Mrs John Beresford (née Montgomery) (?1757-1788)
Portrait of William Cusack-Smith, later 2nd Bt (1766-1836)
Portrait of John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare (1749-1802)
Possibly William Power Keating Trench, later 1st Earl of Clancarty (1741-1805)
Portrait of Cardinal Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart, Duke of York (1725-1807)
Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803), with his Granddaughter Lady Caroline Crichton (1779-1856), in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
Sir Michael Smith, 1st Bt (1740-1808)
Portrait of the Rt Hon. David La Touche of Marlay (1729-1817)
Portrait of a Gentleman
Frederick North, Later Fifth Earl of Guilford, in Rome
Lady Holland (Lady Mary Fitzpatrick)
George Clavering Cowper, 3rd Earl Cowper
H Beard Print Collection
H Beard Print Collection
Antonio Canova in his studio with Henry Tresham and a plaster model for <i>Cupid and Psyche</i>
Collections represented
- Portrait of The Hon. Mrs John Beresford (née Montgomery) (?1757-1788)
- Portrait of William Cusack-Smith, later 2nd Bt (1766-1836)
- Portrait of John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare (1749-1802)
- Possibly William Power Keating Trench, later 1st Earl of Clancarty (1741-1805)
- Portrait of Cardinal Henry Benedict Maria Clement Stuart, Duke of York (1725-1807)
- Frederick Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol (1730-1803), with his Granddaughter Lady Caroline Crichton (1779-1856), in the Gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome
- Sir Michael Smith, 1st Bt (1740-1808)
- Portrait of the Rt Hon. David La Touche of Marlay (1729-1817)
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