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James Hamilton

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James Hamilton (1819 - 1878) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, California.  James Hamilton is known for Narrative, marine and landscape painting.

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 Born in Ireland, James Hamilton became a landscape painter and is credited with painting one of the first American seascapes, The Sea at Atlantic City, in 1868. Few of his seascapes have survived, but exhibition records reveal that he did numerous coastal scenes from New York to Maryland.

He came to the United States, settling with his family in Philadelphia, at age fifteen.  His early teachers are unknown, but he had guidance in book and magazine illustration.  He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in addition to painting, gained skill in engraving and etching.

He was a great admirer of the landscapes of English painter J.M.W. Turner, and became known as the "American Turner" because of his vivid lighting effects in coastal scenes and seascapes.  His only recorded trip abroad was to England in 1854 and 1855, and he studied Turner's paintings while there.  He also had a studio in Wilmington, Delaware, but mainly h   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9991 characters.]  Artist bio

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   Publications  Book References:  76
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for James Hamilton
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art & Antiques Ship to Shore July 2004 McClelland, James Yes
76 Book References for James Hamilton
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.		 1249 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Naeve, Milo (bios) 150 Years of Philadelphia Painters and Paintings: Selections From 47 Yes
1996 Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols) 877 Yes
1996 Yaeger, Bert D The Hudson River School American Landscape Artists 80 Yes
1995 Jacobs, Michael The Painted Voyage Art, Travel and Exploration 1564-1875 156 Yes
1994 Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art 372 Yes
1993 Ayers, William S Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930
(Exhibition catalog)		 256 Yes
1993 Reed, Sue Welsh/Carol Troyen Awash in Color Homer, Sargent and the Great American Watercolor
(Exhibition catalog)		 266 Yes
1992 Kammen, Michael Meadows of Memory Images of Time & Tradition in American Art & Culture 192 No
1992 Stebbins, Theodore E The Lure of Italy American Artists and the Italian Experience
(Exhibition catalog)		 470 Yes
1991 Koshkin-Youritzin, Victor American Watercolors from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 204 Yes
1991 Pennsylvania Academy Telling Tales 19th Century Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 100 Yes
1991 Sullivan, Mark W The Hudson River School An Annotated Bibliography 225 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three 396 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Fresella-Lee, Nancy The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art 222 Yes
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Nelson, Harold B Sounding the Depths 150 Years of American Seascape 111 Yes
1989 Schwarz-Philadelphia American Painting 64 Yes
1989 Wilmerding, John American Light: The Luminist Movement 1850-1875
(Exhibition catalog)		 330 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 472 No
1988 Hall, Audrey A Century of Philadelphia Artists Frank S. Schwarz & Son
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 Yes
1987 Neff, Terry (editor) A Proud Heritage Two Centuries of American Art 300 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Adamson, Jeremy Elwell Niagara Two Centuries of Changing Attitudes 1697-1901
(Exhibition catalog)		 167 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1985 Spasky, Natalie American Painting V 2, Catalog, Metropolitan Mus Artists born 1816-45 671 No
1984 Adams, Henry 25th Anniversary Exhibition Selected American Paintings
(Exhibition catalog)		 120 No
1984 Faunce, Sarah; Linda S. Ferber (Curators) American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages The Brooklyn Museum 88 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist
(Exhibition catalog)		 213 No
1981 Newark Museum American Art in the Newark Museum Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture 431 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
1980 Perkins, Robert/Wm J Gavin III The Boston Athenaeum Art Exhibition Index 1827-1874
(Exhibition catalog)		 325 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1979 Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics) 736 No
1979 Mint Museum American Paintings The Landon Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 83 Yes
1978 Davidson, Abraham A The Eccentrics and Other American Visionary Painters 203 Yes
1977 Hoopes, Donelson F American Watercolor Painting 208 Yes
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)		 270 Yes
1976 Boyle, Richard (Prefac); Frank Goodyear, Jr.; Louise Lippincott, et all In This Academy: The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1805-1976
(Exhibition catalog)		 322 Yes
1976 McShine, Kynaston The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Exhibition catalog)		 178 Yes
1976 Samuels, Peggy and Harold The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West 549 No
1976 Taylor, Joshua C America as Art 320 Yes
1976 Virginia Museum American Marine Painting A Loan Exhibition
(Exhibition catalog)		 151 Yes
1976 Wadsworth Atheneum The Hudson River School 19th Century American Landscapes 96 Yes
1975 Arkelian, Marjorie The Kahn Collection Of 19th Century Paintings by Artists in Caifornia 64 Yes
1974 Buffalo Fine Arts Academy American Art in Upstate New York Drawings, Watercolors and Small Sculptures 80 No
1974 Gerdts, William H Revealed Masters 19th Century American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 152 Yes
1974 Hoopes, Donelson/Nancy Moure American Narrative Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 192 Yes
1973 Naylor, Maria Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set)
(Exhibition catalog)		 1075 No
1971 Gerdts, William H 19th Century American Painting From the Collection of Henry Melville Fuller
(Exhibition catalog)		 92 No
1968 Wilmerding, John American Marine Painting (2nd Edition) 204 Yes
1968 Wilmerding, John History of American Marine Painting 179 Yes
1967 Hirschl & Adler Galleries American Paintings for Public and Private Collections 52 Yes
1966 Jacobowitz, Arlene James Hamilton 1819-1878, American Marine Painter
(Exhibition catalog)		 99 No
1966 Metropolitan Museum of Art 200 Years of Watercolor Painting Centennial of American Watercolor Society
(Exhibition catalog)		 64 No
1962 Flexner, James Thomas History Of American Painting: That Wilder Image Painting of America's Native School (Vol. 111) 407 No
1957 Groce, George; David Wallace The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860 759 No
1950 Barker, Virgil American Painting History and Interpretation 715 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1932 Hartmann, Sadekichi A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One 363 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1879 Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheele Art in America a Critical and Historical Sketch 214 No
1856 Kane, Elisha Kent Arctic Explorations (Illustrations by James Hamilton) 0 No
1853 Kane, Elisha Kent The U.S. Grinell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin (Illustrated by James Hamilton) 0 Yes
1845 Frost, John Pictorial History of the American Navy (Illustrated by James Hamilton) 0 No
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