1901-30
Related Paintings of Christopher Wood :. | Wagoner | Virgin and Child | Winter in Abramtsevo,The Church,Study | The Queen of Spain | The Battle for the Town Hall | Related Artists:
Marcus Gheeraertz the Youngerpainted Robert Devereaux, Earl of Essex in 1596
Heinrich Foelixpainted Kurfurst Clemens Wenzeslaus von Sachsen in ca. 1776
George Hitchcock1850-1913
George Hitchcock (1850 - 1913), American artist, was born in Providence, Rhode Island.
Hitchcock graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in Paris.
He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his "Tulip Growing", of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio at Egmond-aan-Zee, in the Netherlands. He became a ch??valier of the French Legion of Honour; a member of the Vienna Academy of Arts, the Munich Secession Society, and other art bodies; and is represented in the Dresden gallery; the imperial collection in Vienna; the Chicago Art Institute, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.