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I RISH & INTERNATIONAL ART AUCTION
M ONDAY 10TH APRIL 2017 AT 6.00PM
93
signed with initials lower centre
oil on canvas
40 x 49cm (16 x 19in)
3URYHQDQFH James Adams & Bonhams, 5th December 2006 Lot 106;
Private Collection
€5,000-7,000 (£4,347-6,086)
Letitia Marion Hamilton was born in County Meath in 1878 and hailed from an artistic family. Her great-grand-mother was the
artist Marianne-Caroline Hamilton and her cousin was the watercolourist Rose Maynard Barton. Both Hamilton and her sister Eva
studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art under William Orpen. Hamilton studied enamelling there also, winning a silver
medal in 1912 by both the School and the Board of Education National Commission. Her work showed elements of Art Nouveau,
foreshadowing her later modernist leanings. Hamilton also studied in Belgium with Frank Brangwyn and the Slade School of Fine
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which she became a member in 1943. Together with Paul Henry, his wife Emily Grace Mitchell/Grace Henry, Mary Swanzy, Jack
Butler Yeats and others, she formed the Society of Dublin Painters in 1920. In 1948 Letitia was awarded a bronze medal in the arts
section of the Olympic Games for her painting of the Meath Hunt Point to Point Races, the only Irish medal that year, and one of
the last Olympic medals for art to be awarded.