731. George Hitchcock (American, 1850-1913), "Dutch Woman", c.1899; oil/canvas, 21.5" x 17.5", signed.
Highly important expatriate painter. Hitchcock received his law degree from Harvard before deciding to become an artist.
He moved to London in 1879 to study art, and eventually went to Paris. Throughout the 1880s-1890s, he
painted in Holland, specializing in scenes of peasant women in the landscape. Hitchcock became known by his
fellow artists as the "painter of sunlight". His subjects, often peering skyward, portrayed a certain religious symbolism.
In 1883, Gari Melchers came to Holland and shared a studio with him. Hitchcock exhibited at the
National Academy of Design and the Paris Salon, and his work is in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum and the
Rhode Island School of Design. REF: American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth
Century, Michael Quick; American Imagination and Symbolist
Painting, Charles Eldredge. 8000-11,000
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