Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Philip Gilbert Hamerton ( born September 10, 1834 in Lane Side in Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester ( Lancashire ); † November 4, 1894 in Boulogne -sur -Mer ) was an English painter, engraver and writer.

Hamerton devoted himself in London the painting, especially the landscape, lived since 1857 on Loch Awe ( lake in the Scottish county of Argyll ) in the Scottish Highlands, he glorified through verses and sketches, but moved in 1861 to France, to only in Sens, in Autun to take later his stay. He has proven to be a prolific writer in the field of art history, the novel and the early writings.

Works (selection)

  • A painter's camp in the Highlands and thougths about art (1861 )
  • Etching and etchers (1868 )
  • The intellectual life ( 1873)
  • Round my house (1876 )
  • Modern Frenchmen (1878 )
  • The life of Turner ( 1878)

Digitised works

  • Chapters on animals. With twenty illustrations by J. Veyrassat and Karl Bodmer (1874 )
  • Chapters on animals. With eight illustrations by J. Veyrassat and Karl Bodmer ( 1888)

Hamerton also issued a series of sculptures.

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