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PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON (1834-1894)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 877 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILIP See also:GILBERT See also:HAMERTON (1834-1894)  , See also:English artist and author, was See also:born at Laneside, near See also:Shaw, See also:close to See also:Oldham, on the loth of See also:September 1834 . His See also:mother died at his See also:birth, and having lost his See also:father ten years afterwards, he was educated privately under the direction of his guardians . His first See also:literary See also:attempt, a See also:volume of poems, proving unsuccessful, he devoted himself for a See also:time entirely to landscape See also:painting, encamping out of doors in the See also:Highlands, where he eventually rented the See also:island of Innistrynych, upon which he settled with his wife, a See also:French See also:lady, in 1858 . Discovering after a time that his qualifications were rather those of an See also:art critic than of a painter he removed to the neighbourhood of his wife's relatives in See also:France, where he produced his Painter's See also:Camp in the Highlands (1863), which obtained a See also:great success and prepared the way for his See also:standard See also:work on See also:Etching and Etchers (1866) . In the following See also:year he published a See also:book, entitled Contemporary French Painters, and in 1868 a continuation, Painting in France after the Decline of Classicism . He had meanwhile become art critic to the Saturday See also:Review, a position which, from the See also:burden it laid upon him of frequent visits to See also:England, he did not See also:long retain . He proceeded (187o) to establish an art See also:journal of his own, The See also:Portfolio, a monthly periodical, each number of which consisted of a monograph upon-some artist or See also:group of artists, frequently written and always edited by him . The discontinuance of his active work as a painter gave him time for more See also:general literary See also:composition, and he successively produced The Intellectual See also:Life (1873), perhaps the best known and most valuable of his writings; See also:Round my See also:House (1876), notes on French society by a See also:resident; and See also:Modern Frenchmen (1879), admirable See also:short See also:biographies . He also wrote two novels, Wenderholme (1870) and Marmorne (1878) . In 1884 Human Intercourse, another valuable volume of essays, was published, and shortly afterwards See also:Hamerton began to write his autobiography, which he brought down to 1858 . In 1882 he issued a finely illustrated work on the technique of the great masters of various arts, under the See also:title of The Graphic Arts, and three years later another splendidly illustrated volume, Landscape, which traces the See also:influence of landscape upon the mind of See also:man . His last books were: Portfolio Papers (1889) and French and English (1889) .

In 1891 he removed to the neighbourhood of See also:

Paris, and died suddenly on the 4th of See also:November 1894, occupied to the last with his labours on The Portfolio and other writings on art . In 1896 was published See also:Philip See also:Gilbert Hamerton: an Auto-See also:biography, 1834–1858; and a Memoir by his Wife, 1858–1894 .

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