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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'THE HUNT MEET'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- oil on canvasboard
- 7Ύ x 9½in. (19.69 x 24.13cm)
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'SAN PIETRO DI CASTELLO, VENICE'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 04 March 2013
- oil on board
- 15 by 19in., 37.5 by 47.5cm.
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'THE DONKEYS'
- Price Realised: 3,200
- Sale: 29 April 2003
- oil on panel
- 21 by 25cm., 8.25 by 10in.
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'AT THE PIG MARKET'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 30 November 2009
- watercolour over pencil
- 30 by 41cm., 12 by 16.2 5in.
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'EVENING IN CONNEMARA'
- Price Realised: 2,900
- Sale: 24 November 2008
- oil on panel
- 20 by 25cm., 8 by 10in.
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'COURTYARD OF HOTEL IN ANDALUSIA'
- Price Realised: 2,800
- Sale: 06 March 2023
- oil on canvas board
- 7Ύ x 9½in. (19.69 x 24.13cm)
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'A PAIR OF YACHTS ON A FINE DAY'
- Price Realised: 2,800
- Sale: 29 April 2003
- oil on board
- 8 by 13cm., 3.25 by 5.25in.
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'COURTYARD OF HOTEL IN ANDALUSIA'
- Price Realised: 2,700
- Sale: 29 September 2008
- oil on canvas board
- 20 by 24cm., 7.75 by 9.5in.
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'THE MEETING'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 09 March 2020
- oil on canvas board
- 8 x 9Ύin. (20.32 x 24.77cm)
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'THE MEATH HOUNDS'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 09 March 2020
- oil on canvas board
- 8 x 9Ύin. (20.32 x 24.77cm)
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'COTTAGE'
- Price Realised: 2,600
- Sale: 24 November 2014
- oil on canvas board
- 12 x 16in. (30.48 x 40.64cm)
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'IRELAND'S EYE, COUNTY DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 2,300
- Sale: 04 December 2023
- oil on board
- 5Ό x 7Όin. (13.34 x 18.42cm)
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'PURPLE AND GOLD, 1931'
- Price Realised: 2,200
- Sale: 25 February 2008
- oil on panel
- 13 by 18cm., 5 by 7in.
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'CAFΙ VALDEMOSA'
- Price Realised: 2,100
- Sale: 01 October 2012
- oil on canvas board
- 5 by 7in., 13 by 18cm.
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'PALAZZO GRIMANI, VENICE, ITALY'
- Price Realised: 2,000
- Sale: 29 May 2023
- watercolour
- 15½ x 14½in. (39.37 x 36.83cm)
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'GORSE'
- Price Realised: 2,000
- Sale: 07 December 2020
- oil on panel
- 12 x 16in. (30.48 x 40.64cm)
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'YORK MINSTER FROM THE MARKET PLACE'
- Price Realised: 1,800
- Sale: 28 May 2018
- oil on board
- 10 x 10in. (25.40 x 25.40cm)
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'YORK MINSTER CATHEDRAL, c.1930s'
- Price Realised: 1,600
- Sale: 25 May 2015
- oil on board
- 13 x 15½in. (33.02 x 39.37cm)
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'LAMBAY ISLAND'
- Price Realised: 1,600
- Sale: 31 May 2010
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 13 by 18cm., 5.25 by 7.25in.
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'CLEW BAY'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 29 November 2010
- oil on board
- 13 by 18cm., 5 by 7in.
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'COUNTRY CHURCHYARD'
- Price Realised: 1,500
- Sale: 29 April 2003
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 30 by 25cm., 12 by 10in.
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'MISTY DAY, PORTMARNOCK, COUNTY DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 1,400
- Sale: 02 October 2017
- oil on board
- 4Ύ x 6½in. (12.07 x 16.51cm)
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'VIEW OF LAKE AND FOOTBRIDGE, MOUNT USHER, COUNTY WICKLOW, 1926'
- Price Realised: 1,250
- Sale: 30 September 2013
- watercolour over pencil
- 11.5 by 15in., 28.75 by 37.5cm.
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'POLO IN PHOENIX PARK, 1958'
- Price Realised: 1,200
- Sale: 29 November 2010
- oil on canvas laid on board
- 13 by 18cm., 5 by 7in.
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'VIEW AT MOUNT USHER, c.1926-1928'
- Price Realised: 1,150
- Sale: 30 September 2013
- watercolour over pencil
- 11.5 by 15in., 28.75 by 37.5cm.
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'POLO, PHOENIX PARK, DUBLIN'
- Price Realised: 1,000
- Sale: 30 September 2013
- oil on board
- 5 by 8in., 12.5 by 20cm.
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'THE VILLAGE PUMP'
- Price Realised: 450
- Sale: 12 June 2005
- colour offset lithographic print, unframed
- 46 by 53cm., 18 by 21in.
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'BANTRY BAY, COUNTY CORK'
- Price Realised: 220
- Sale: 17 July 2017
- offset lithograph
- 17 x 21in. (43.18 x 53.34cm)