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 or eldest son of James; entered the service of the Elector of Brandenburg at Cleves in 1661, but seems to have immediately removed to Potsdam, whence, having resigned his position, he went to Vienna in 1670, then entered the Bavarian service in 1683. Works: Dead Game, Animal Life in the Woods (2), Schwerin Gallery; similar subjects (4), Aschaffenburg Gallery; do. (4), Schleissheim Gallery.—Schlie, 235.

HAMILTON, GAVIN, born at Lanark, Scotland, in 1730, died in Rome in 1797. History painter, master unknown; went early to Italy, and resided in Rome most of his days. More noted for promotion of the fine arts than as a painter, but left some good pictures, especially illustrations of the Iliad. Works: Achilles with the Dead Body of Patroclus; Achilles parting with Briseis; Achilles dragging the body of Hector behind his Chariot; Andromache weeping over Hector; Apollo. About 1794 he decorated an apartment in the Villa Borghese, Rome, with the story of Paris.—Redgrave.

HAMILTON, HAMILTON, born in Middlesex Co., England, April 1, 1847. Genre painter, self-taught. His family removed to America when he was an infant, and settled at Cowlesville, Wyoming County, N. Y. In 1872 he opened a studio in Buffalo and painted portraits; in 1875 visited the Rocky Mountains and painted the Laramie Peaks (Centennial Exhibition, 1876), now in the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy; spent 1878-79 in Europe, chiefly at Pont Aven, Brittany; returned thence to Buffalo, and removed to New York in 1881. Member of American Water-Colour Society, and New York Etching Club; elected A.N.A. in 1886. Works: The Peddler's Visit, The Sisters (1882); The Silver Line, Jump—Sir! Little Sunbeam, The Dreamer (1884); Interior at New Windsor—N. Y., Farewell, Veiled Head (1885); Solitude, The Messenger (1886).—Hitchcock, American Etchings (New York, 1885).

HAMILTON. JAMES, born in Ireland in 1819, died in 1878. Marine painter, taken to America as a child, studied first in Philadelphia; spent 1854-55 in London, and after his return to Philadelphia furnished illustrations for Dr. Kane's Arctic Explorations and other works. Professional life passed in Philadelphia. Works: Egyptian Sunset; Morning off Atlantic City, Mrs. C. S. Longstreet, New York; Moonlight Scene near Venice; Wrecked Hopes; Old Ironsides; Escape of Smugglers, Capture of the Serapis, Mrs. D. D. Colton, San Francisco; Death of Steerforth, W. H. Fosdick, Louisville; Wreck off the Coast, C. H. Wolff, Philadelphia; Off Delaware Capes, J. W. Drexel, New York; Vision of Columbus, Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Philadelphia.

HAMILTON, JEAN GEORGE DE, born at Brussels in 1666 or 1672, died in Vienna in 1740 (?). Animal and still-life painter, son and pupil of James (Scotch painter of fruit and still life); painted many years in Brussels, then joined his brother Philip in Vienna; later lived at the court of Berlin, but returned to Vienna after the death of Friedrich I. of Prussia, and became court-painter. He painted flowers, fruits, and insects, but especially horses with great skill. Works: Horses and Foals in Pasture (2), Imperial Stud at Lipicza (1727, with 72 horses painted from nature), Stag and two Roes in a Landscape, Boar-Head and Hunting Implements (1718), Vienna Museum; several in Summer Palace at Schönbrunn, and in Gallery of Stift Kremsmünster; Dead Hare and Birds, Old Pinakothek, Munich; Dead Birds Suspended (2), Schleissheim Gallery; White Horse Jumping (1703), Thoroughbred (1704), White Horse led by Negro, Sorrel led by Groom (1709), Dresden Gallery; Dogs by Dead Game (3), Dead Bird and Insects (2), Bear-Hunt, Stuttgart Museum; White Grouse in the Mountains, Zürich Gallery. His son and pupil, Anton Ignatz (born in Vienna in 1696, died at Hubertsburg, Saxony, in 1770), who painted the same subjects, entered the service of the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and then became court-painter to Augustus III., King of Poland and Elector of Saxony.—Kramm, ii. 635.