The New Student's Reference Work/Hamerton, Philip Gilbert

Ham′erton, Philip Gilbert, an English writer on art, was born at Laneside in
PHILIP G. HAMERTON Lancashire, Sept. 10, 1834. He began his career as an art-critic by writing for the Fine Arts Quarterly and the Fortnightly and Saturday Reviews. In 1855 he published a poem on The Isles of Loch Awe and in 1862 A Painter's Camp in the Highlands and Thoughts about Art. From 1869 to 1889 he edited The Portfolio, an art-journal. Others of his works are The Intellectual Life, The Graphic Arts, Human Intercourse, Landscape, Portfolio Papers (1889) and a number of novels. He was a writer of keen discrimination, and had a picturesque and impressive style. He died at Boulogne, Nov. 6, 1894.