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Artist: Letitia Marion Hamilton RHA (1875-1964) Title: Lake in Connemara (c.1950) Signature: signed with initials lower right Medium: oil on canvas Size: 51 x 61cm (20.1 x 24in) Framed Size: 63.2 x 73.2cm (24.9 x 28.8in) Provenance: Private Collection a#morebtn { color: #de1d01; } a#morebtn:hover { cursor: pointer;} Apart from views of Dublin and its surrounding counties, most of Letitia Marion Hamilton's Irish landscapes depict scenes either in West Cork or Connemara. She produced many views of Bantry Bay and Glengarriff, as well as Roundstone and the Twelve Pins. This work has been identified as a scene in Co... Read more Letitia Marion Hamilton Lot 22 - 'Lake in Connemara (c.1950)' Estimate: €4,000 - €6,000 Apart from views of Dublin and its surrounding counties, most of Letitia Marion Hamilton's Irish landscapes depict scenes either in West Cork or Connemara. She produced many views of Bantry Bay and Glengarriff, as well as Roundstone and the Twelve Pins. This work has been identified as a scene in Connemara, on the basis of comparison with a landscape by Hamilton with good provenance. [Lot 42, Whyte's 8th May 2002]. In the background, a dark blue mountain is silhouetted against a sky in which rain clouds appear to be moving in from the west. In the foreground is a cutaway bog, filled with water and surrounded by colourful myrtle bushes, heathers, and mosses. Hamilton's palette is almost invariably light and full of the colours of a summer's day, while her handling of paint is characterised by the use of palette knife and brush, to create an impastoed surface. There is an energy in her paintings that raises them above the level of comparable artists. A combination of Expressionism and Impressionism, her style can be compared to Tom Thomson and the Canadian "Group of Seven". Letitia Hamilton was one of a generation of Irish women from privileged backgrounds-like her cousin Rose Barton who turned to art as a profession. Together with her older sister Eva, Letitia spent her life painting, traveling, and exhibiting. The sisters did not marry and, with their genteel lifestyle and dedication to art, became known as 'The Hamwood Ladies'. The daughter of Charles Robert Hamilton and Louise Brooke, Letitia was born into a family of ten, at Hamwood House in Co. Meath. After attending Alexandra College, she enrolled as a student at the Metropolitan School of Art, as did Eva, where she studied under William Orpen The sisters then moved to London, where Letitia studied for a time under Anne St. John Partridge (1860-1836) at the Chelsea Polytechnic and also under Frank Brangwyn She first showed at the RHA in 1909, submitting a view of her local village, Dunboyne, and thereafter exhibited regularly at the Academy. After the death of their father in 1913, Letitia and her mother and sisters lived at the family's Dublin townhouse, 40 Lower Dominick Street, but three years later they moved to Monasterevin, in Co. Kildare. By 1920, when Letitia was one of the founder members of the Society of Dublin Painters, the family were living at Font Hill in Palmerstown, close to Dublin. Letitia spent time in the West of Ireland , painting mainly landscapes, but also travelled extensively on the Continent, particularly in Italy and Yugoslavia. In 1924, at the invitation of Ada Longfield, the two sisters spent the year in Venice, the first of several visits. During this period, Letitia began to paint using a palette knife. She exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1925, and also in London, at the Goupil, Walker's and French galleries, as well as showing with the RA, RSBA and the Fine Art Society, and in 1948 she won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London. Peter Murray, June 2023