Gavin Hamilton
See also: Gavin, Hamilton
Gavin Hamilton , born in 1723 with Lanark, dead the January 4th 1798 with Rome, is a neo-classic painter Scottish. He belongs to the family whose name gave the town of Hamilton and titrates it of duke of Hamilton.
Hamilton is pupil at the university of Glasgow, before studying in Rome in the years 1740, under the direction of Agustine Mossuchi. After a short return in Scotland, it paints several portraits with London and goes back in 1756 to Rome, where it resides until its death in 1798.
Except some portraits the noble ones, the majority of its subjects belong to the Greece or the traditional Rome. He also carried on the activity of archeologist amateur. Its most famous work is a cycle of six tables drawn from the Illiade of Homère.
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