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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'A WESTMEATH BOG'
- Price Realised: 6,800
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas board
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'CLIFDEN, CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 6,700
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on canvas board
- 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
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'GORSE'
- Price Realised: 6,600
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- oil on panel
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'LAKE MAGGIORE, ITALY'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 24 November 2014
- oil on canvas
- 15 x 17½in. (38.10 x 44.45cm)
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'BRIDGE OF SIGHS, VENICE'
- Price Realised: 6,200
- Sale: 19 November 2002
- oil on board
- 24 by 20cm., 9.5 by 8in.
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'FAIR DAY, DUNBOYNE, COUNTY MEATH, c. 1910'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 02 October 2023
- oil on canvas
- 16 x 18in. (40.64 x 45.72cm)
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'TURF CUTTING'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 28 September 2020
- oil on board
- 20 x 24in. (50.80 x 60.96cm)
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'A MOUNTAIN STREAM'
- Price Realised: 6,000
- Sale: 28 April 2008
- oil on canvas
- 41 by 51cm., 16 by 20in.
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'VICO BAY FROM DALKEY ISLAND'
- Price Realised: 5,967
- Sale: 09 October 2001
- oil on canvas board
- 20 by 27cm., 8 by 10.7in.
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'THORN TREE, LOUGH MASK'
- Price Realised: 5,800
- Sale: 04 March 2024
- oil on board
- 12 x 16in. (30.48 x 40.64cm)
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'UPPER LOUGH MASK, COUNTY MAYO'
- Price Realised: 5,800
- Sale: 27 May 2013
- oil on canvas
- 20 by 24in., 50 by 60cm.
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'FIGURES ON A PATH BEFORE THE ROCK OF CASHEL'
- Price Realised: 5,800
- Sale: 22 February 2005
- oil on board
- 30 by 37cm., 12 by 14.7in.
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'ST EDMUNDSBURY ON THE LIFFEY AT LUCAN, COUNTY DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 5,800
- Sale: 21 September 2004
- oil on Windsor and Newton "Rathbone" canvas board
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16in.
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'COUNTY LIMERICK HUNT'
- Price Realised: 5,713
- Sale: 19 November 2001
- oil on canvas board
- 23 by 28cm., 9 by 11in.
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'NEAR FIESOLE, FLORENCE'
- Price Realised: 5,600
- Sale: 26 September 2016
- oil on board
- 7Ύ x 10in. (19.69 x 25.40cm)
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'THE FAIR, ROUNDSTONE'
- Price Realised: 5,400
- Sale: 01 October 2012
- watercolour
- 14.5 by 16.5in., 37 by 42cm.
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'TREES BY THE LIFFEY'
- Price Realised: 5,205
- Sale: 13 March 2001
- oil on canvas
- 46 by 30cm., 18 by 12in.
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'LAKE ORTA, ITALY'
- Price Realised: 5,200
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- oil on panel
- 12 x 16in. (30.48 x 40.64cm)
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'INTERIOR OF CHRISTCHURCH CATHEDRAL, DUBLIN, 1911'
- Price Realised: 5,000
- Sale: 28 September 2009
- oil on canvas
- 76 by 56cm., 30 by 22in.
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'CLIFDEN, CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 5,000
- Sale: 28 September 2009
- oil on canvas board
- 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
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'ACHILL ISLAND, COUNTY MAYO (FIGURES ON THE BOG)'
- Price Realised: 4,800
- Sale: 02 December 2019
- oil on board
- 12 x 16in. (30.48 x 40.64cm)
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'ST. EDMUNDSBURY ON THE LIFFEY AT LUCAN, COUNTY DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 4,800
- Sale: 21 May 2012
- oil on Windsor and Newton "Rathbone" canvas board
- 12 by 16in., 30.48 by 40.64cm.
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'SIR GEORGE BROOKE - MASTER OF THE KILDARE HOUNDS'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 04 December 2023
- oil on board
- 12 x 16in. (30.48 x 40.64cm)
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'ARATUM LILLIES'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 18 May 2009
- oil on canvas
- 61 by 51cm., 24 by 20in.
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'PORTMARNOCK'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 29 April 2003
- oil on canvas board
- 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
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'IRELAND'S EYE'
- Price Realised: 4,000
- Sale: 18 February 2003
- oil on canvas board
- 11 by 17cm., 4.5 by 6.5in.
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'YORK MINSTER CATHEDRAL'
- Price Realised: 3,428
- Sale: 13 June 2001
- oil on board
- 33 by 42cm., 13 by 16.5in.
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'VENETIAN SCENES (A PAIR)'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 27 September 2021
- watercolour; (2)
- 18 x 14Όin. (45.72 x 36.20cm)