Johann George of Hamilton

Memorial plaque at Wittingau Castle

White hunting falcon with a heron , 1748, Belvedere , Vienna

Johann George von Hamilton (also Johann George of Hamilton , Johann Georg (e) de Hamilton ; * 1672 in Munich , † January 1737 in Vienna ) was a well-known animal and still life painter . As the son of the still life painter James Hamilton, he came from a Scottish aristocratic family who had emigrated to the Spanish Netherlands (possibly as a result of the battle of Rullion Green in Galloway on November 28, 1666).

In the 1690s he came to Vienna with his brother Philipp Ferdinand . There he got a job at the imperial court of Charles VI. where he was appointed court and chamber painter in 1712 . Another brother, Karl Wilhelm von Hamilton (* 1668 or 1670, † 1754), was also an animal painter. Johann Georg's son Anton Ignaz von Hamilton (* 1696 in Vienna, † around 1770 in Hubertusburg in Saxony) entered the service of the Duke of Weimar and King August III as a painter. of Poland and Saxony.

From 1709 to 1718 he lived at Castle Wittingau (Třeboň) in South Bohemia with Adam Franz Karl Eusebius Prince of Schwarzenberg . He also decorated the Ohrada Castle with paintings. Today his depictions of horses and especially the Lipizzaners of the Spanish Riding School are his best known works.

literature

Constantin von Wurzbach : Hamilton, Johann Georg (in the family article) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1861, p. 264 ( digitized version ).
Heinrich Kábdebo: Hamilton, Johann Georg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 477.

Web links

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Individual evidence

↑ Ludmila Ourodová-Hronková: Johann Georg de Hamilton (1672-1737): malíř zvířat a lidí . Národní památkový ústav, České Budějovice 2015, ISBN 978-80-85033-66-3 , p. 51.
^ Hubert Janitschek : History of German painting . 1890, reprint at Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86444-207-0 , p. 574 ( online )
↑ Friedrich Faber (Ed.): Conversations Lexicon for fine arts . Sixth volume. Rengersche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1853, p. 390 ( online )
^ Johann Samuelersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber, Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel, Wilhelm Müller, Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann, August Leskien: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Second section H-N. Publisher by Johann Friedrich Glebitsch, Leipzig 1828, p. 18 ( online )

personal data
SURNAME	Hamilton, Johann George von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hamilton, Johann George of; Hamilton, Johann George de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Animal and still life painter
DATE OF BIRTH	1672
PLACE OF BIRTH	Munich
DATE OF DEATH	January 1737
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Ludmila Ourodová-Hronková: Johann Georg de Hamilton (1672-1737): malíř zvířat a lidí . Národní památkový ústav, České Budějovice 2015, ISBN 978-80-85033-66-3 , p. 51.

[2] Hubert Janitschek : History of German painting . 1890, reprint at Salzwasser Verlag, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-86444-207-0 , p. 574 ( online )

[3] Friedrich Faber (Ed.): Conversations Lexicon for fine arts . Sixth volume. Rengersche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1853, p. 390 ( online )

[4] Johann Samuelersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber, Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel, Wilhelm Müller, Andreas Gottlieb Hoffmann, August Leskien: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . Second section H-N. Publisher by Johann Friedrich Glebitsch, Leipzig 1828, p. 18 ( online )