He arrived there in, or perhaps a little previous to, 1764. † These portraits are ovals about 9 ½ by 7 ½ inches in size, slightly executed upon grey paper in black and white chalk, finished with coloured chalks.Īfter some years successful practice in Dublin Hamilton was tempted to try his fortune in London. His little portraits, being faithful likenesses, full of expression and charm, quickly done and cheap, became the vogue, and the artist soon obtained a considerable practice. Soon afterwards he commenced practice as a portrait-painter in crayons. In a competition for pattern-designing in 1756 he produced the best drawing, but the prize was withheld owing to his being then just over sixteen years of age he was, however, given a bounty of four pounds. In 1750 he was placed by the Dublin Society under the tuition of Robert West in his drawing school in George's Lane, where his industry was rewarded with several prizes. As, according to the records of the Dublin Society, Hamilton was "just over sixteen" in 1756, his birth may be fixed as in the year 1739. But O'Keeffe is inaccurate in his dates even about himself. John O'Keeffe, who was born in 1747, says that "he might have been five years my elder" ("Recollections"), which would place his birth about 1742, certainly too late. No record of his birth has been found but the date was certainly later than "about 1734," as usually given. Hugh Douglas Hamilton was the son of a peruke-maker in Crow Street, Dublin. In Bryan's and in Redgrave's Dictionaries and in the "Dictionary of National Biography" his birth is stated to have taken place "about 1734," the year of his death is given as 1806, and he is credited as having been a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy, a body which did not come into existence until some fifteen years after his death. Of the artist himself few details either of his life or works have hitherto been recorded the published biographical notices of him are meagre even the date of his birth and death are incorrectly given. Within the last few years the art of Hugh Douglas Hamilton has begun to attract attention in the London sale-rooms, and his little pasted portraits, facile in art and harmonious in colour, so popular in his life-time, are now again sought for. Picture by George Chinnery in Royal Hibernian Academy. "And then, I shared it with a few friends in my WhatsApp group who said they themselves actually learned something from it.Hugh Douglas Hamilton. "I did it only with the intention of just for self-education," he said. Learning about what happened to Garner, Cooke began to create and share cartoons illustrating Garner's story, as well as other cases connected to police brutality and racism, on his Instagram page. While researching cases of police violence, he came across the story of Eric Garner, a Black man who was killed by Staten Island police in 2014. "It was a topic that I was very ignorant to and wanted to learn more about it," Cooke said. As a white man who lived thousands of miles away from the ongoing protests, the racial reckoning gave him the chance to educate himself about why police brutality had been dominating headlines. That included the Irish illustrator Pan Cooke. was grappling with questions of race and justice, the rest of the world looked on, too. 7 in Memphis, Tenn.Īfter Minneapolis police killed George Floyd in the summer of 2020, the entire United States watched as protests against police brutality rocked cities from coast to coast. Here, one of his latest strips tells the story of the beating death of Tyre Nichols, who died on Jan. Irish artist Pan Cooke combines his love of graphic storytelling with a passion for education and advocacy to create comic strips highlighting prominent cases of police violence.
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