Materials and technological characteristics of paintings by Johann Georg de Hamilton (1672-1737) - a famous portraitist of horses

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Materials and technological characteristics of paintings by Johann Georg de Hamilton (1672-1737) - a famous portraitist of horses

Original language description

Johann Georg de Hamilton (1672-1737) was a painter of Scottish origin (after his father), born in Brussels and educated in the Southern Netherlands. For the purpose of this research, ten portraits of horses attributed to J. G. Hamilton were compared in order to identify specific materials and painting technique features of the artist and finally provide ground for clear differentiation between Hamilton’s paintings and later copies created after his death. One of the most important characteristics of Hamilton’s palette was the employment of not very widely used greyish blue pigment vivianite, applied in the underpainting. In Europe, natural accumulations of this mineral pigment are relatively frequent; however, their economic importance was – in most cases – questionable. Therefore, it seems that vivianite represents more probably a sign of artist’s preference rather than a sign of regional provenance. In the seventeenth century, vivianite became popular in the Northern Netherlands, but in the region of Central Europe and particularly in Bohemia, its findings are rather sporadic. That is why a copyist of Hamilton’s paintings, J. F. Adolph (probably of local Bohemian origin), used completely different technology and materials (earth pigments + indigo instead of vivianite + ultramarine) for the painting of the sky. On the other hand, mineralogical composition of earthy grounds used in the paintings of both artists is completely the same and corresponds to the regional source of earthy pigments in Bavaria.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

AL - Art, architecture, cultural heritage

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/DF12P01OVV048" target="_blank" >DF12P01OVV048: New portable instruments, laboratory and methodology for the non-destructive materials analysis of the fine art in the frame of cultural heritage protection</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Painting Techniques History, Materials and Studio Practice

ISBN

978-94-91714-95-5

Number of pages of the result

9

Pages from-to

154-162

Number of pages of the book

292

Publisher name

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Place of publication

Amsterdam

UT code for WoS chapter

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