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Artist: Letitia Marion Hamilton RHA (1875-1964) Title: Glengariff, West Cork Signature: initialled 'LMH' lower right & titled on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Size: 51 x 66cm (20 x 26in) Provenance: Original artist's label on reverse with price of £40; Christie's, London, 23rd March 1995, Lot 89; Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin (label verso); Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Letitia Marion Hamilton was born in County Meath in 1878 and hailed from an artistic family, her great-grand-mother was the artist Marianne-Caroline Hamilton and her cousin was the watercolourist Rose Maynard Barton. Both Hamilton and her sister Eva studied at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art under William Orpen Hamilton studied enamelling there also, winning a silver medal in 1912 by both the School and the Board of Education National Commission. Her work showed elements of Art Nouveau, foreshadowing her later modernist leanings. Hamilton also studied in Belgium with Frank Brangwyn and the Slade School of Fine Art. 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. In 1948 Letitia was awarded a bronze medal in the arts section of the Olympic Games for her painting of the Meath Hunt Point to Point Races, the only Irish medal that year, and one of the last Olympic medals for art to be awarded.