Letitia Marion Hamilton was an Irish landscape artist and Olympic bronze medallist.
Letitia Hamilton showed artistic promise from an early age and one of her teachers was John Butler Yeats. However, she was late in developing her professional career and did not exhibit her work until 1904. She began her studies at the Dublin Metropolitan School of art in 1907 at the age of twenty-nine, where she was taught by one of Ireland’s leading artists, William Orpen. She was not greatly influenced by his strongly academic style but instead she was initially influenced by the Impressionist and her later enamelwork reveals a knowledge of Art Nouveau.
Her mature style, which developed in the 1920s, is marked by her frequent use of the palette knife. Her favourite subjects are landscapes, market scenes and hunting scenes. She exhibited regularly in Dublin, London and Scotland and continued painting until the end of her life.
