DOI Heft:
No. 247 (October 1913)
DOI Artikel:Stodart-Walker, Archibald: The paintings of James Whitelaw Hamilton, A.R.S.A., R.S.W.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21208#0032
Janies IVhit el aw Hamilton, A.R.S.A., R.S.JV.
School of Painting and frequently joined Guthrie,
Walton and Crawhall in summer sojourns at
Cockburnspath in Berwickshire. His progress in
the arts was so rapid and so encouraging that he
abandoned his business career, and for several
seasons worked in the ateliers of Paris, more
particularly with Dagnan-Bouveret and Aime Morot.
Returning to Scotland he became associated with
“ The Glasgow School,” and contributed to those
remarkable exhibitions at the old Grosvenor
Gallery which were to bring the eclectics of the
North into that prominent position in European
art which they have not ceased to occupy.
Munich followed the Grosvenor Gallery in hail-
ing the men who had been storming the academic
citadels of Scottish art. In fact, it may be said
that the recognition of the Continental centres
came before that of Edinburgh. Then followed
Dresden and Berlin, Vienna and Budapest,
Venice and St. Petersburg, Bruges and Brussels,
to all of which Mr. Hamilton was a notable con-
tributor, with the result that his chief work is
much better known on the Continent than it is
in England, or even in Scotland. At the Munich
International Exhibition of 1897 he was awarded
a gold medal for his landscape Evening. In 1898
the Bavarian Government purchased for the Royal
Pinakothek his Summer Night, supplementing this
by a second purchase for the same collection. At
the Venice International Art Exhibition of 1903
one of Mr. Hamilton’s oils was purchased by
Queen Margharita. The painter is also represented
in the City Art Museum of St. Louis, in the
Albright Art Gallery at Buffalo, the Carnegie Art
Institute at Pittsburgh, and other galleries. Col-
lections of his work have twice been shown at the
Schulze Galleries in Berlin, while many of his
pictures are in the possession of well-known col-
lectors in Munich, Dresden, Venice, Rome, and
other art centres. Two years ago one of his most
important oils, A Kirkcudbright Landscape, repro-
duced in this magazine at the time, was acquired
“ SUMMER ”
BY J. WHITELAW HAMILTON
School of Painting and frequently joined Guthrie,
Walton and Crawhall in summer sojourns at
Cockburnspath in Berwickshire. His progress in
the arts was so rapid and so encouraging that he
abandoned his business career, and for several
seasons worked in the ateliers of Paris, more
particularly with Dagnan-Bouveret and Aime Morot.
Returning to Scotland he became associated with
“ The Glasgow School,” and contributed to those
remarkable exhibitions at the old Grosvenor
Gallery which were to bring the eclectics of the
North into that prominent position in European
art which they have not ceased to occupy.
Munich followed the Grosvenor Gallery in hail-
ing the men who had been storming the academic
citadels of Scottish art. In fact, it may be said
that the recognition of the Continental centres
came before that of Edinburgh. Then followed
Dresden and Berlin, Vienna and Budapest,
Venice and St. Petersburg, Bruges and Brussels,
to all of which Mr. Hamilton was a notable con-
tributor, with the result that his chief work is
much better known on the Continent than it is
in England, or even in Scotland. At the Munich
International Exhibition of 1897 he was awarded
a gold medal for his landscape Evening. In 1898
the Bavarian Government purchased for the Royal
Pinakothek his Summer Night, supplementing this
by a second purchase for the same collection. At
the Venice International Art Exhibition of 1903
one of Mr. Hamilton’s oils was purchased by
Queen Margharita. The painter is also represented
in the City Art Museum of St. Louis, in the
Albright Art Gallery at Buffalo, the Carnegie Art
Institute at Pittsburgh, and other galleries. Col-
lections of his work have twice been shown at the
Schulze Galleries in Berlin, while many of his
pictures are in the possession of well-known col-
lectors in Munich, Dresden, Venice, Rome, and
other art centres. Two years ago one of his most
important oils, A Kirkcudbright Landscape, repro-
duced in this magazine at the time, was acquired
“ SUMMER ”
BY J. WHITELAW HAMILTON