Ewd Hamilton (1864-1943) - View Of The Village Of Grez-sur-loing

EWD HAMILTON (1864-1943) View of the Village of Grez-sur-Loing. Oil on canvas mounted on a wood panel. Image size: 30 cm x 25 cm. Frame size: 61.5 cm x 57 cm. Edward Wilbur Dean Hamilton (1864-1943) was an American painter known for his landscapes, portraits, and genre scenes, and a prominent figure in the Boston School of painting. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, the Rhode Island School of Design under Tomasso Juglaris, and then continued his training in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts. Returning to Boston in 1892, he maintained a studio on Boylston Street and exhibited at institutions such as the Boston Art Club and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Hamilton was a member of the Copley Society and the St. Botolph Club of Boston, two leading artistic organizations in the city. He taught at the Massachusetts Normal Art School for about fifty years, then ran a summer art school in Kingston, Massachusetts.