Hedvig Hamilton

Hedvig Hamilton
Born9 December 1870
Died11 December 1949(1949-12-11) (aged 79)
Occupationpainter

Hedvig Eleonora Hamilton (9 December 1870 – 11 December 1949) was a Swedish portrait painter working in watercolour and oils.

Life

Hamilton was born in Lund in 1870.

Beata Elisabeth Hamilton By Hedvig Hamilton after (prob.) Lorens Pasch

She painted portraits, self portraits, and landscapes with Stockholm motifs in oil and watercolor. She attended the Tegne- og Kunstindustriskolen for Kvinde [Wikidata] in Copenhagen. She studied further with the artist Richard Burgh in Stockholm under Richard Bergh. She studied further in France and Germany.

Hamilton died in Stockholm in 1949. She was buried locally.

References

  1. 1 2 AB, Eniac Data. "Sök gravsatt på SvenskaGravar.se". www.svenskagravar.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-01-25.
  2. ↑ English: The book "Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX" ("Swedish Portrait Gallery XX"), from 1901. With 714 mini biographies and portraits of Swedish architects, sculptors, painters and more, 1901, retrieved 2020-01-25
  3. ↑ "HEDVIG Eleonora HAMILTON: Lexikonett amanda". www.lexikonettamanda.se. Retrieved 2020-01-25.