George Hitchcock (artist)
| George Hitchcock | |
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| File:Sargent Portrait of George Hitchcock.jpg
Portrait of Hitchcock by John Singer Sargent, 1900
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| Born | September 29, 1850 Providence, Rhode Island |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Marken, Netherlands |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Brown University, Harvard Law School |
| Known for | Painting |
| Patron(s) | Gustave Boulanger, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre |
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.
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]
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 near Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, 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. In 1909 he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.
- Artwork selection
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Hitchcock dutchbride.jpg
Dutch bride, c.1890
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Hitchcock dutchwomaninagarden.jpg
Dutch woman in a garden, c.1890
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Hitchcock pinktulips.jpg
Bulb fields with windmill, c.1890
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George Hitchcock - The Flight into Egypt - 1892.jpg
The Flight into Egypt, 1892, the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C., 1892
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George Hitchcock-Dutch Flower Girls.jpeg
Dutch Flower Girls
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Hitchcock, George - Calypso - Google Art Project.jpg
Calypso c.1906
At the time of his death, he was living in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken, Netherlands.[2][3]
Hitchcock was married to the painter Cecil Jay.[4]
References
- ↑ George Hitchcock in the RKD
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External links
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- George Hitchcock at Artcyclopedia
- George Hitchcock at Art Renewal Center
- George Hitchcock at The Athenaeum
- George Hitchcock exhibition catalogs
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