George Hitchcock

George Hitchcock (September 29, 1850 – August 2, 1913) was an American painter, born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was mostly active in Europe, notably in the Netherlands.

Early life Hitchcock was born in Providence, Rhode Island on September 29, 1850. He was a son of Charles Coan Hitchcock (1823–1858), and Olivia George Cowell.

His paternal grandparents were Samuel Johnson Hitchcock, a founder of Yale Law School, and, his first wife, Laura ( Coan) Hitchcock. His maternal grandfather was Judge Benjamin Cowell of the Court of Common Pleas in Rhode Island, and the author of Spirit of '76, in 1847.

Hitchcock graduated from Brown University, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. Hitchcock began his formal art education at the Heatherley's School of Fine Art in London in 1879. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1882.

Career The (l.t.r.) Henriette Hitchcock, (unknown), Corinne Melchers, George Hitchcock and Gari Melchers. Archives, Gari Melchers Home and Studio.thumb He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his Tulip Growing, of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio in that country near Egmond aan Zee, where he started his "Art Summer School" that later resulted in a group of returning summer artists, including Gari Melchers, that informally became the Egmondse School (1890-1905). a student at the Art Summer School who was thirty-three years his junior. The newlyweds moved to Paris, effectively ending the summer school.

At the time of his death in 1913, he was living in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken, Netherlands.

Selected paintings