Mother and Child with Lilies

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George Hitchcock
Mother and Child with Lilies
1895

About the Item

Although trained as a lawyer, the American painter George Hitchcock is best known for his impressionistic pictures of brilliantly colored Dutch tulip fields, Dutch peasant women, and mystical religious scenes. During his lifetime, Hitchcock was one of the best known of the American expatriate painters and held membership in prestigious academies and associations in the United States and abroad. George Hitchcock was born in 1850 in Providence, Rhode Island, to a prominent family who could trace its ancestry back to the colony’s founder Roger Williams. Hitchcock attended Brown University, graduating in 1872, and Harvard Law, graduating in 1874. Admitted to the Bar in Rhode Island and New York, Hitchcock practiced law for five years, before feeling the pull of an artistic career. In 1879, Hitchcock arrived in London and attended the Heatherley’s School of Fine Art. He supplemented his initial artistic training with a year in Paris, where he studied at the Académie Julian with the painters Jules Lefebrve and Gustave Boulanger; a winter at the Academy in Düsseldorf, and two summers studying in the Hague with the Dutch marine painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Hitchcock debuted at the Salon in Paris in 1887 with Tulip Culture, a picture depicting a peasant woman walking in a field of tulips. This painting earned Hitchcock an honorable mention and established his reputation for being the impressionist interpreter of the Dutch countryside. During the 1880s George Hitchcock and another American expatriate painter Geri Melchers established an artists colony in the group of small villages of Egmond on the Dutch coast. Hitchcock settled in Schuylenburg house in Egmond-aan-deen-Hoef, and painted the ordinary people going about their daily lives in a light impressionist style. Hitchcock and Melchers welcomed more than 300 students to the region over the course of two decades and witnessed the establishment of 17 studios. Hitchcock’s mature style combines many different elements from his artistic training. From the Barbizon School of landscape painting, Hitchcock adopted a lighter palette, expressive brushwork, and an affinity for painting en plein air, or outdoors. The dignity, monumentality, and mysticism with which the French Naturalist painter Jules Bastien-Lepage imbued his peasants are manifest in Hitchcock’s treatment of the Dutch peasants of Egmond. And the high-keyed, light infused palette and broken brushstrokes of the Impressionists gave Hitchcock the idiom with which he pictured the Dutch countryside and its inhabitants SELECTED MUSEUMS/COLLECTIONS Art Institute of Chicago (The Annunciation, Flower Girl in Holland) Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland (Maternite) Belmont, Gari Melchers Memorial Gallery, Fredericksburg, Va. (Dutch Girl in Field of Hyacinths; Fishing Boat on the Beach; Gari Melchers Painting; Street Scene in Holland; Two Ladies in a Field of Tulips; White Plow Horse in a Field of Hyacinths) Brooklyn Museum of Art (Girl on her Way to Church, 1891) Cleveland Museum of Art (Blessed Mother, 1892) Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Dutch Landscape) Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden (In the Haarlem Tulips) Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the De Young (Tulip Culture) Grand Rapids Art Museum (Purple Hyacinths) Indianapolis Museum of Art (Calypso) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Vespers) Musée d’Orsay, Paris (Vaincu, ca. 1898) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (Flight into Egypt) Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, Savannah, Ga. (Early Spring in Holland) Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (Flower Field near Leiden)

Creator:
George Hitchcock (1850-1913, American)
Creation Year:
1895
Dimensions:
Height: 44.25 in (112.4 cm)Width: 35.25 in (89.54 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
American Impressionist
Period:
Late 19th Century
Condition:
There are no repairs and no inpaint.
Gallery Location:
Washington, DC
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU123825778801