Hamilton, Hugh Douglas

Artist

Hamilton, Hugh Douglas

Years

1739 - 1808

Mediums

oil on canvas, Painting

Biography

Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA 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).

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