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Impressionist medieval street in Correze France, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2021

A loosely painted, impressionist oil painting of a rural French setting on a sunny summer's day. It has been painted on a canvas panel (canvas attached to wood), sized 20x30cm (7.8i...

Deep in the rural forests and hills of Limousin France, life has stood still for a few hundred years, or at least you could be forgiven for thinking so. This impressionist painting...

Verteuil-sur-Charente is a picturesque town in Nouvelle Aquitaine, rich in history. This original impressionist painting is of the tanning mill, located in the heart of the village....

Honfleur is well known for its old port, and was a location frequented by such artists as Courbet and Claude Monet. This oil painting features some of the local buildings close to th...

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Village View in Espalion, Aveyron By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 9.75 x 8.75 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on boar...

Original painting of the beautiful medieval French village of Saint Cirq Lapopie, Midi-Pyrénées, France, by leading Contemporary British Artist, Angela...

Letitia Marion Hamilton Irish, (1878-1964) Gateway, Semur Oil on canvas, signed, inscribed on verso 'Gateway, Semur by Letitia Marion Hamilton of Fonthill Palmerstown, Dublin’ Image size: 24 inches x 20 inches Size including frame: 33 inches x 29 inches A lovely painting of the town of Semur-en-Auxois, France by Letitia Marion Hamilton. The work with its airy lightness shows figures outside a grocers shop next to the Guillier Gate showing a glimpse of the central square of the famous medieval town. The use of white pigment in her colours applied in a thick impasto was a trademark of her work. Letitia Marion Hamilton was born in Dunboyne, County Meath on 30 July, 1878, the daughter of Charles Hamilton and Louisa Brooke. She came from a family of famous Irish women artists: her great-grandmother was Caroline Hamilton (1771-1861), her elder sister Eva Hamilton (1876-1960) was also a talented painter, and her cousin Rose Maynard Barton (1856-1929) was a townscape and watercolour artist. The family lived at Hamwood, Dunboyne, Meath in Ireland. She trained at the Metropolitan School of Art, Dublin alongside her sister Eva under Sir William Orpen (1878-1939) before attending the Slade School of Art where she was taught by Sir Frank Brangwyn (1867-1956). She made her debut at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1909 where she continued to exhibit regularly. In 1912, she was awarded a silver medal by the Dublin school and received another from the Board of Education National Competition. After the death of her father in 1913, she and her family moved to 40 Lower Dominick Street in Dublin, later living at Monasterevin, in Co. Kildare. By 1920, they had relocated to Font Hill in Palmerstown, Dublin. In the same year, Hamilton formed the Society of Dublin Painters together with Paul Henry, his wife Emily Grace Mitchell...