George Hitchcock (artist)
George Hitchcock (September 29, 1850 – August 2, 1913) was an American painter, born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was mostly active in Europe, notably in the Netherlands.
George Hitchcock | |
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 Portrait by John Singer Sargent (1900) | |
| Born | September 29, 1850 |
| Died | August 2, 1913 (aged 62) Marken, Netherlands |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brown University, Harvard Law School, Académie Julian |
| Patron(s) | Gustave Boulanger, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre |
Biography
Hitchcock graduated from Brown University, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris.[1][2]
He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his Tulip Growing, of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio in that country near Egmond aan Zee,[2] where he started his "Art Summer School" that later resulted in a group of returning summer artists that informally became the Egmondse School (1890-1905). He received these students and guests at his "Huis Schuylenburgh", a large estate in Egmond aan den Hoef.
He became a chevalier of the French Legion of Honour and a member of the Vienna Academy of Arts, the Munich Secession Society, and other art bodies, and is represented in the Dresden gallery, the imperial collection in Vienna, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.[2] In 1909, he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.
Hitchcock married Henrietta Walker Richardson on July 6, 1881. He divorced her on July 31, 1905, and nine days later married Cecil Jay,[3] a student at the Art Summer School who was thirty-three years his junior. The newlyweds moved to Paris, effectively ending the summer school.
At the time of his death in 1913, he was living in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken, Netherlands.[4][5]
Selected paintings
Dutch bride, c.1890
Dutch woman in a garden, c.1890
Bulb fields with windmill, c.1890
The Flight into Egypt, 1892, the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C., 1892
Dutch Flower Girls
Calypso c.1906
References
- George Hitchcock in the RKD
- Chisholm 1911.
- David Bernard Dearinger; National Academy of Design (U.S.) (2004). Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826–1925. Hudson Hills. ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3.
- Victorian Web
- "George Hitchcock Dead". The New York Times. Paris. August 5, 1913. p. 4. Retrieved April 11, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hitchcock, George". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 533.
External links
Media related to George Hitchcock at Wikimedia Commons