or eldest son of James; entered the service of the Elector of Brandenburg at Cleves in 1661, but seems to have immediately removed to Potsdam, whence, having resigned his position, he went to Vienna in 1670, then entered the Bavarian service in 1683. Works: Dead Game, Animal Life in the Woods (2), Schwerin Gallery; similar subjects (4), Aschaffenburg Gallery; do. (4), Schleissheim Gallery.—Schlie, 235.
HAMILTON, GAVIN, born at Lanark,
Scotland, in 1730, died in Rome in 1797.
History painter, master unknown; went early
to Italy, and resided in Rome most of his days.
More noted for promotion of the fine arts
than as a painter, but left some good pictures,
especially illustrations of the Iliad.
Works: Achilles with the Dead Body of Patroclus;
Achilles parting with Briseis; Achilles
dragging the body of Hector behind his
Chariot; Andromache weeping over Hector;
Apollo. About 1794 he decorated an apartment
in the Villa Borghese, Rome, with the
story of Paris.—Redgrave.
HAMILTON, HAMILTON, born in Middlesex
Co., England, April 1, 1847. Genre
painter, self-taught. His family removed to
America when he was an infant, and settled at
Cowlesville, Wyoming County, N. Y. In 1872
he opened a studio in Buffalo and painted
portraits; in 1875 visited the Rocky Mountains
and painted the Laramie Peaks (Centennial
Exhibition, 1876), now in the Buffalo
Fine Arts Academy; spent 1878-79 in
Europe, chiefly at Pont Aven, Brittany; returned
thence to Buffalo, and removed to
New York in 1881. Member of American
Water-Colour Society, and New York Etching
Club; elected A.N.A. in 1886. Works:
The Peddler's Visit, The Sisters (1882); The
Silver Line, Jump—Sir! Little Sunbeam,
The Dreamer (1884); Interior at New Windsor—N. Y.,
Farewell, Veiled Head (1885);
Solitude, The Messenger (1886).—Hitchcock,
American Etchings (New York, 1885).
HAMILTON. JAMES, born in Ireland in
1819, died in 1878. Marine painter, taken
to America as a child, studied first in Philadelphia;
spent 1854-55 in London, and
after his return to Philadelphia furnished
illustrations for Dr. Kane's Arctic Explorations
and other works. Professional life
passed in Philadelphia. Works: Egyptian
Sunset; Morning off Atlantic City, Mrs. C.
S. Longstreet, New York; Moonlight Scene
near Venice; Wrecked Hopes; Old Ironsides;
Escape of Smugglers, Capture of the
Serapis, Mrs. D. D. Colton, San Francisco;
Death of Steerforth, W. H. Fosdick, Louisville;
Wreck off the Coast, C. H. Wolff,
Philadelphia; Off Delaware Capes, J. W.
Drexel, New York; Vision of Columbus,
Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia.
HAMILTON, JEAN GEORGE DE, born
at Brussels in 1666 or 1672, died in Vienna
in 1740 (?). Animal and still-life painter,
son and pupil of James (Scotch painter of
fruit and still life); painted many years
in Brussels, then joined his brother Philip
in Vienna; later lived at the court of Berlin,
but returned to Vienna after the death
of Friedrich I. of Prussia, and became court-painter.
He painted flowers, fruits, and insects,
but especially horses with great skill.
Works: Horses and Foals in Pasture (2), Imperial
Stud at Lipicza (1727, with 72 horses
painted from nature), Stag and two Roes
in a Landscape, Boar-Head and Hunting
Implements (1718), Vienna Museum; several
in Summer Palace at Schönbrunn, and in
Gallery of Stift Kremsmünster; Dead Hare
and Birds, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dead
Birds Suspended (2), Schleissheim Gallery;
White Horse Jumping (1703), Thoroughbred
(1704), White Horse led by Negro, Sorrel
led by Groom (1709), Dresden Gallery;
Dogs by Dead Game (3), Dead Bird and
Insects (2), Bear-Hunt, Stuttgart Museum;
White Grouse in the Mountains, Zürich Gallery.
His son and pupil, Anton Ignatz (born
in Vienna in 1696, died at Hubertsburg,
Saxony, in 1770), who painted the same subjects,
entered the service of the Duke of
Saxe-Weimar, and then became court-painter
to Augustus III., King of Poland
and Elector of Saxony.—Kramm, ii. 635.
