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Artist: Letitia Marion Hamilton RHA (1875-1964) Title: The Big Tree, Bantry Bay Signature: signed with initials 'L M H' lower left Medium: oil on canvas Size: 56 x 66.30cm (22 x 26.1in) Framed Size: 83.2 x 93.2cm (32.8 x 36.7in) Provenance: Original artist's label verso; Private Collection Exhibited: RHA Annual Exhibition, 1946: No.194 a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} In her landscape paintings, Letitia Marion Hamilton often incorporated trees in the foreground, with mountains visible in the distance. Just as Monet incorporated elements of Japanese design into his Impressionist paintings, Hamilton uses tree trunks to frame the view, creating a sense of depth and ... Read more Letitia Marion Hamilton Lot 16 - 'The Big Tree, Bantry Bay' Estimate: €10,000 - €15,000 In her landscape paintings, Letitia Marion Hamilton often incorporated trees in the foreground, with mountains visible in the distance. Just as Monet incorporated elements of Japanese design into his Impressionist paintings, Hamilton uses tree trunks to frame the view, creating a sense of depth and perspective, while also forming a decorative pattern, where the contrast between the silhouetted trunks of trees and the bright blue waters gives a heightened awareness of the natural beauty of the scene. Her palette is light and full of the colours of a summer's day, while the handling of paint is characterised by her use of palette knife and brush, to create an impastoed surface. There is an energy in Hamilton's paintings that raises them above the level of most landscape painting; her work can be compared to the brilliant works of Tom Thomson and the Canadian "Group of Seven". Hamilton's painting style reveals the influence of Monet and of French artists of the 1930s-particularly Raoul Dufy She was one of a generation of Irish women from privileged backgrounds-like her cousin Rose Barton who turned to art as a profession. Bright and breezy, her paintings combine the light palette of impressionism with an essentially nineteenth-century Realist approach to subject matter. Together with her older sister Eva, Letitia spent her life painting, traveling and exhibiting. They did not marry and, with their genteel lifestyle and dedication to art, became known as 'The Hamwood Ladies'. The daughter of Charles Robert Hamilton and Louise Brooke, Letitia was born into a family of ten, at Hamwood House in Co. Meath. After attending Alexandra College, she enrolled as a student at the Metropolitan School of Art, as did Eva, where she studied under William Orpen The sisters then moved to London, where Letitia studied for a time under Anne St. John Partridge (1860-1936) at the Chelsea Polytechnic and also under Frank Brangwyn She first showed at the RHA in 1909, submitting a view of her local village, Dunboyne, and thereafter exhibited regularly at the Academy. After the death of their father in 1913, Letitia and her mother and sisters lived at the family's Dublin townhouse, 40 Lower Dominick Street, but three years later they moved to Monasterevin, in Co. Kildare. By 1920, when Letitia was one of the founder members of the Society of Dublin Painters, the family were living at Font Hill in Palmerstown, close to Dublin. Letitia spent time in Sligo, painting West of Ireland landscapes but also travelled extensively on the Continent, particularly in Italy and Yugoslavia. In 1924, at the invitation of Ada Longfield, the two sisters spent the year in Venice, the first of several visits. During this period, Letitia began to paint using a palette knife. She exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1925, and also in London, at the Goupil, Walker's and French galleries, as well as showing with the RA, RSBA and the Fine Art Society, and winning a bronze medal at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, for her painting of a Meath Hunt point-to-point race.