Franz de Hamilton

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Franz de Hamilton , also Frans de Hamilton (born 1623 presumably in Lanarkshire , Scotland; died 1712 in Aschaffenburg ) was a German-British landscape painter, draftsman and engraver of animal motifs and still lifes .

Act

Hamilton was accepted into the service of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg in Kleve in 1661 and followed him to his court in Potsdam . For his salary of 400 Reichstalers, he had to produce a certain number of pictures free of charge until the end of 1670. He received 3 Reichstalers a week, a pot of wine every day while he was working, and two loads of wood and a bison of seeds a year. From 1672 to 1674 he worked at the court in Hanover and from there first went to Vienna . On July 16, 1683 he was appointed Bavarian court painter by Elector Maximilian Emanuel . Here he received, according to the appointment letter , 1,500 guilders as annual pay and made works for the Schleißheim and Nymphenburg palaces . In a petition he asked the elector to allow him two horses to allow him to travel more comfortably because of his advanced age, but this request was refused on May 20, 1686. Hamilton exercised the activity until April 16, 1690, although he and other artists had already been dismissed from the service of the elector in 1689. Since he had his wife and children to look after, he turned to the elector again with a request to keep him occupied; this request was also rejected on May 9, 1690. He stayed in the vicinity of the Bavarian Court until 1695 and again applied for re-employment at the court, since his wife had died in the meantime and he had probably lost several children. He finally came to Aschaffenburg via Augsburg . His works include wild still lifes and depictions of insects and reptiles between flowers and shrubs. Among other things, De Hamilton made still lifes from engraved mother-of-pearl on slate, as can be found, for example, in an inlaid flower composition as part of a wall decoration in the Florentine room of the Favorite Palace near Rastatt. In 1675 he made a hunting still life as a commissioned work for Landgrave Karl von Hessen-Kassel . Works by Hamilton can be found in the Amalienburg in the palace gardens of Nymphenburg or in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover.

Works (selection)

  • Bird's nest at the foot of a tree trunk

  • Plant still life with butterflies

  • Hunting dog with prey

  • River landscape

Berlin

Grunewald hunting lodge

  • Hunting still life
  • Killed ducks
  • Killed partridge
Munich

Formerly Schleissheim Gallery

  • Wolf tearing up a young goat (by the way, a raven and a magpie waiting for the remains)
  • Grapes with whey thieves flying around

Formerly Nymphenburg

  • several landscape paintings
  • several still lifes with insect flowers and reptiles

literature

  • Message from Franz von Hamilton, Churbayer court painter . In: Johann Georg Meusel (Hrsg.): Miscellaneen artistic content . Booklet 7. Keyser, Erfurt 1781, p. 238-242 ( books.google.de ).
  • Georg Kaspar Nagler: Hamilton, Franz von . In: New general artist lexicon . tape 5 : Gallimberti – Haslöhl . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1837, p. 538-539 ( books.google.de ).
  • Hamilton, Franz de . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 552–553 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  • Heinrich Fußbahn, Franz de Hamilton: The baroque artist Franz de Hamilton in Aschaffenburg (=  Aschaffenburg yearbook for history, regional studies and art of the Lower Main region . Volume 28 ). History and Art Association, Aschaffenburg 2010, OCLC 706903764 .

Web links

Commons : Franz de Hamilton  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Nicolai: Franz de Hamelton . In: News from the builders, sculptors, copper engravers, painters, plasterers, and other artists who have stayed in and around Berlin from the thirteenth century until now and whose works of art are partly still there . Stettin, 1786, p. 48 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Message from Franz von Hamilton, Churbayerschen Hofmaler . In: Johann Georg Meusel (Hrsg.): Miscellaneen artistic content . Keyser, Erfurt 1781, p. 238-242 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ↑ Hamilton, Franz de . In: Ulrich Thieme , Fred. C. Willis (Ed.): General lexicon of visual artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 15 : Gresse – Hanselmann . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1922, p. 552–553 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Hunting equipment on a board wall
  5. ↑ Franz de Hamilton. German Digital Library, accessed on September 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Franz de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton, Frans de; Mutton, Frantz von; Hamelton, Franz de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British painter, draftsman and engraver of animal motifs and still lifes
DATE OF BIRTH 1623
DATE OF DEATH 1712
Place of death Aschaffenburg