Letitia Marion Hamilton

Who was Letitia Marion Hamilton?

Letitia Marion Hamilton was an Irish artist who, with her sister Eva, studied under William Orpen at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin and under Frank Brangwyn. She spent some time in Italy, but travelled and painted all over the Continent. She was born in Dunboyne.

Letitia was the great-granddaughter of the artist Caroline Hamilton. She was a prolific painter of the Irish countryside, exhibiting more than 200 paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy of which she became a member in 1943. Together with Paul Henry, his wife Emily Grace Mitchell/Grace Henry, Mary Swanzy, Jack Butler Yeats and others, she formed the Society of Dublin Painters in 1920.

One of her paintings, the "View of Lough Mask" was expected to be sold for €9,000 to €12,000.