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Oil on canvas board, 19 x 25.25cm (7½ x 10’’)
Signed with initials
€ 3,000 - 5,000
Originally from Co. Meath, Letitia Hamilton studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where she was taught by William Orpen, continuing her studies at
the Slade School of Art in London and with Frank Brangwyn. She exhibited annually at the RHA from 1909, and was elected a member in 1944. In the 1920s she
exhibited a number of times at the Paris Salon as well as at the Goupil Gallery, Walker Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Royal
Society of British Artist’s and Scottish Society of Women Artist in Edinburgh. She was also one of the founder members of the Society of Dublin Painters in 1920.
In 1945 Hamilton had a solo show at Victor Waddington Galleries in Dublin, and another in 1948, the same year that she won a bronze medal at the Olympic
Games art section in London. She went on to have three solo shows at the Dawson Gallery in the following years. Hamilton’s work can be found in major collec-
tions such as the National Gallery of Ireland, Ulster Museum, Crawford Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery, Office of Public Works, VHI, Wesley College and City Gallery of
Art in Limerick.