Woman sheltering a child in a landscape
William Hamilton British
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Hamilton belonged to a generation determined to expand the scope of the arts in Britain. He traveled to Rome as a teenager to study with Antonio Zucchi, returned to England to make decorative paintings for Robert Adam, then entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1769. From that point forward he focused on historical and literary subjects, together with portaits. This early drawing of a woman sheltering her child beneath a tree may represent Margaret of Anjou, who fled into the woods with prince Edward after the Lancasterian defeat at the Battle of Hexham, during the Wars of the Roses.
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