Eva Henrietta Hamilton

Eva Henrietta Hamilton (1876–1960), an Irish artist, was a portrait, landscape, and watercolour painter.

Life Eva Henrietta Hamilton was born in Dunboyne, County Meath. She was a daughter of Charles Robert Hamilton of Hamwood, eldest of her sisters Amy (b. 1879) and Letitia Marion, and cousin of Rose Barton, the watercolourist. Eva was the great-granddaughter of the artist Marianne-Caroline Hamilton. Eva and her sister Letitia painted, exhibited and travelled together. She began exhibiting with the Water Colour Society of Ireland (WCSI) at the age of 22.

She painted such people as Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory. The National Gallery bought an oil painting of hers, called Rose Dorothy Brooke for £1,806.25, in 1997. She has a piece at the Model Arts Centre in Sligo.

Works

Moret sur Loing. Ceilidh at Dunboyne, 1919. Summer's day in the west. The canal bridge. View over Sligo Bay. Children on a grassy sand bank. Fiesole. Cottage in the West. SELF PORTRAIT, c.1906. On the Malahide Shore, 1921. FOREST WITH STREAM AND BRIDGE. Achill Street Scene. Portrait of her Sister Amy. Children at Portmarnock Holy Island from Mountshannon House, County Claire, 1947. A cottage on the Irish coast oil on board. Portrait of a girl standing Under a shady tree Sheep in a Meadow.

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