Gavin Hamilton

1723–1798 · Neoclassicism

Gavin Hamilton was a Scottish neoclassical history painter, who is more widely remembered for his searches for antiquities in the neighbourhood of Rome. These roles in combination made him an arbiter of neoclassical taste.

16 paintings

• Hebe Giving Drink to the Eagle of Jupiter (1767)
• Susanna Kennedy (1689–1780), Countess of Eglinton (copy after William Aikman) (1740)
• Hector's Farewell to Andromache (1775)
• The Abdication of Mary, Queen of Scots
• 6thDukeOfHamilton (1750)
• Portrait of Emma Hamilton as a Sibyl (1789)
• Juno and Jupiter (1770)
• Porträt der Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton (1733-1790) (1752)
• The Death of Lucretia (1765)
• Priam Pleading with Achilles for the Body of Hector (1775)
• Agrippina Landing at Brindisium with the Ashes of Germanicus (1772)
• Thomas Keymer of Kidwelly (1722-1784) ), à la chinoise (1754)
• Venus ushering Helen to Paris (1757)
• Cleopatra (1767)
• Venus Presenting Helen to Paris (1777)
• Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton and later Duchess of Argyll, 1733 - 1790 (1752)