George Hitchcock
American, 1850 - 1913
George Hitchcock, born in 1850, had high academic expectations and studied at Brown and Harvard Law School before entering Acadamie Julian in Paris. In 1879 he quit his law practice to study painting there. Hitchcock created Impressionistic pictures of brilliantly colored tulip fields in Holland, usually with a Dutch peasant woman in beautiful costuming. He became known as the "Painter of Sunlight". Hitchcock traveled often, creating halos and auras of light around his subjects. He was elected associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1909. Hitchcock died in 1913.
Biography courtesy of The Caldwell Gallery, www.antiquesandfineart.com/caldwell
Biography courtesy of The Caldwell Gallery, www.antiquesandfineart.com/caldwell
One of the first of his countrymen to draw aesthetic inspiration from Holland, George Hitchcock created depictions of Dutch peasants and fields of flowers that were acclaimed in Continental art circles as well as in the United States.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Hitchcock received his education at Brown and Harvard Universities, receiving a law degree from the latter institution in 1874. While practicing in Chicago, he began to paint, eventually abandoning law to pursue an artistic career. He went on to study at the Academie Julian in Paris and at the Dusseldorf Academy before going to The Hague, where he received instruction from the painter Hendrik Mesdag. During the early 1880s Hitchcock settled in the picturesque coastal town of Egmond, where he painted contemporary genre scenes that won him acclaim in international art circles. He also portrayed Dutch scenery, including fields of flowers and canals.
His early work was executed in an academic realist style, but by the turn of the century Hitchcock had evolved a decorative Impressionist manner that earned him a reputation as a "painter of sunlight." The artist returned to the United States in 1905, but maintained a studio in Egmond for the rest of his life.
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Hitchcock received his education at Brown and Harvard Universities, receiving a law degree from the latter institution in 1874. While practicing in Chicago, he began to paint, eventually abandoning law to pursue an artistic career. He went on to study at the Academie Julian in Paris and at the Dusseldorf Academy before going to The Hague, where he received instruction from the painter Hendrik Mesdag. During the early 1880s Hitchcock settled in the picturesque coastal town of Egmond, where he painted contemporary genre scenes that won him acclaim in international art circles. He also portrayed Dutch scenery, including fields of flowers and canals.
His early work was executed in an academic realist style, but by the turn of the century Hitchcock had evolved a decorative Impressionist manner that earned him a reputation as a "painter of sunlight." The artist returned to the United States in 1905, but maintained a studio in Egmond for the rest of his life.
Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton
