Letitia Marion Hamilton
Letitia Hamilton, known as May to her family and friends, was born at Hamwood, Co. Meath. Described by Hilary Pyle as a typical horse Protestant, she enjoyed a privileged start in life: educated at Alexandra College. She studied art under William Orpen at the Dublin Metropolitan School, partly, no doubt, through the influence of her elder cousin Rose Barton, then an established professional artist. In Belgium she studied with Sir Frank Brangwyn; further study ensued at the Slade in London. She began exhibiting with the WCSI in 1902, showing mostly garden scenes in the manner of Mildred Anne Butler, a family friend. In 1910 she painted in northern France, and is thought to have then encountered the work of the Impressionists. Certainly by 1920, at which time she was a founding member of the Dublin Painters Society, her work reveals an interest in matters of light and shade, and a painterly concern for texture. This was to increase over following years, leading to her mature trademark style of chalky pastel colours applied in thick impasto. www.whytes.ie Her first recorded visit to the West of Ireland was in 1922, when she took a house in Sligo in order to paint. In 1929 she first showed a Connemara landscape at the RHA, but it was not until 1942 that Roundstone began to figure among her painting subjects. In that year she exhibited three Roundstone scenes at the RHA and further works followed every year or two thereafter throughout the forties and fifties. Her final Roundstone subject was exhibited at the RHA the year before her death. www.whytes.ie
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'AN EXTENSIVE LAKELAND VIEW'
- Price Realised: 11,000
- Sale: 26 April 2005
- oil on panel
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'THE FAIRY TREE'
- Price Realised: 10,500
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on canvas
- 43 by 48cm., 17 by 19in.
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'THREE WHITE HORSES ON THE LIFFEY'
- Price Realised: 10,500
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- watercolour over pencil on paper
- 48 by 54cm., 19 by 21.2 5in.
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'PEOPLE IN THE PARK'
- Price Realised: 10,500
- Sale: 17 September 2002
- oil on board
- 24 by 25cm., 9.5 by 10in.
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'COTTAGES IN THE WEST (DOOAGH, ACHILL ISLAND)'
- Price Realised: 10,000
- Sale: 28 September 2020
- oil on canvas
- 20 x 25in. (50.80 x 63½cm)
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'A GARDEN IN SPRING, WITH RIVER AND HOUSE BEYOND'
- Price Realised: 10,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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'LOWER SKY ROAD, CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 9,500
- Sale: 26 April 2005
- oil on board
- 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
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'CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 9,500
- Sale: 08 May 2002
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'CORNFIELDS NEAR FONTHILL'
- Price Realised: 9,395
- Sale: 13 March 2001
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'OLIVE TREES AND THISTLES'
- Price Realised: 9,000
- Sale: 28 November 2006
- oil on board
- 22 by 27cm., 8.5 by 10.5in.
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'THE JURA VALLEY'
- Price Realised: 9,000
- Sale: 17 February 2004
- oil on board
- 32 by 38cm., 12.5 by 15in.
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'THE LAKES'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on panel
- 40 by 34cm., 15.7 5 by 13.2 5i
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'GLENDALOUGH, COUNTY WICKLOW'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on panel
- 32 by 39cm., 12.5 by 15.2 5in.
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'DUNBRODY ABBEY, COUNTY WEXFORD'
- Price Realised: 8,500
- Sale: 16 September 2003
- oil on board
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'LAGO DI COMO'
- Price Realised: 8,200
- Sale: 26 April 2005
- oil on board
- 13 by 18cm., 5 by 7in.
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'TREES IN BLOSSOM, SPRING'
- Price Realised: 7,800
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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'AN OLIVE GROVE BY THE SEA'
- Price Realised: 7,800
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- oil on canvas
- 51 by 61cm., 20 by 24in.
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'CONNEMARA LANDSCAPE WITH THE TWELVE PINS IN THE DISTANCE'
- Price Realised: 7,800
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'ACHILL COASTLINE WITH COTTAGES IN THE FOREGROUND'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 02 December 2019
- oil on canvas
- 20 x 24in. (50.80 x 60.96cm)
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'LOUGH CARA, COUNTY MAYO'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 58cm., 16 by 23in.
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'THE SEVEN CHURCHES, GLENDALOUGH, COUNTY WICKLOW'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on panel
- 32 by 39cm., 12.5 by 15.2 5in.
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'KINSALE'
- Price Realised: 7,500
- Sale: 08 May 2002
- oil on board
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'SNOW SCENE; VIEW OF A RIVER BEND AND TREES'
- Price Realised: 7,400
- Sale: 26 November 2012
- oil on board
- 15 by 18in., 38.1 by 45.72cm.
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'THE RHODODENDRON TREE'
- Price Realised: 7,400
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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'RIVERSIDE LANDSCAPE'
- Price Realised: 7,200
- Sale: 21 May 2012
- oil on board
- 13.5 by 18in., 34.29 by 45.72cm.
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'OLD COAST ROAD'
- Price Realised: 7,200
- Sale: 14 March 2011
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'IRELAND'S EYE FROM PORTMARNOCK'
- Price Realised: 7,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas board
- 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
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'RED SLIPPER WINNING THE IRISH CAMBRIDGESHIRE AT THE CURRAGH ON SATURDAY'
- Price Realised: 7,000
- Sale: 30 April 2007
- oil on canvas board
- 20 by 25cm., 7.75 by 9.75in.