Gustavus Hamilton
Gustavus Hamilton was the younger son of a vicar from Co. Tyrone. He studied in Dublin under Robert West and was soon apprenticed to Samuel Dixon, in whose studio he learnt to colour the basso-relievo prints of birds and flowers in which Dixon specialised. Upon establishing his own studio on Dame Street he became highly successful, painting miniatures for “ladies of the first rank” and making “a power of his money by his pencil” (John O’Keefe, Recollections, quoted in Strickland, Vol. I, pp. 426-7). www.whytes.ie
