John McLure Hamilton - Portrait of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone

Portrait of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone

John McLure Hamilton's original lithograph, "Portrait of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone" is printed upon pale green wove paper and with large, full margins as published in 1898 by T. Fisher Unwin entitled, Lithography & Lithographers:Some chapters in the history of the art, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell; together with desriptions and technical explanations of modern artistic methods by Joseph Pennel. It is signed in the stone by the artist to the lower right. This original color lithograph is a fine example of the portrait art created by the British artist, John McLure Hamilton. Beginning in 1868, the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone was England's Prime Minister on four separate occasions. He is considered England's most important nineteenth century statesman.

Portrait of the Right Honourable W E Gladstone Original Lithograph by the British artist, John McLure Hamilton

Portrait of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone

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Joseph Pennell's "Lithography and Lithographers"
#	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Date	Info	-
01.-		Portrait of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone by the British artist, John McLure Hamilton	John McLure Hamilton (Philadelphia, 1853 - Kingston on Thames, England? 1936)	Original Lithograph	1898	Printed upon pale green wove paper and with large, full margins as published by T. Fisher Unwin entitled, Lithography & Lithographers by Joseph Pennel. Signed in the stone by the artist to the lower right.	Sold
02.-		Self Portrait by the French / British artist Alphonse Legros	Alphonse Legros (Dijon, 1837 - London, 1911)	Original Lithograph	1898	Printed on smooth wove paper and with full margins as published by T. Fisher Unwin for Lithography & Lithographersby Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Joseph Pennell. Not signed in the plate by Alphonse Legros.	Sold
03.-		Guitarrera 'Guitarrista' (Guitar Player) by the French artist, Alexandre Lunois	Alexandre Lunois (Paris, 1863 - Le Pecq (Seine-et-Oise), 1916)	Original Lithograph	1898	Printed upon wove paper and with large, full margins as published by T. Fisher Unwin entitled, Lithography & Lithographers by Joseph & Elizabeth Robins Pennell, London. Signed in the stone by Alexandre Lunois.
04.-		The Gatherers by the British artist, Charles Hazelwood Shannon	Charles Hazelwood Shannon (Sleaford, Lincolnshire, 1863 - Kew Surrey, 1937)	Original Lithograph	1898	Printed upon nineteenth century wove paper and with full margins as published by T. Fisher Unwin for Lithography & Lithographers by Joseph & Elizabeth Robins Pennell, London. Signed in the stone, 'C. H. S.' to the lower right corner	Sold
05.-		Self Portrait by the Scottish artist, William Strang	William Strang (Dumbarton, 1859 - Bournemouth, 1921)	Original Lithograph	1898	Not signed in the stone by William Strang. Printed on hand-made, Van Gelder paper as published by T. Fisher Unwin entitled, Lithography & Lithographers by Joseph & Elizabeth Robins Pennell, London.	Sold

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Title:	Portrait of the Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone
Artist:	Hamilton, John McLure (Philadelphia, 1853 - Kingston on Thames, England? 1936)
Date:	1898
Medium:	Original Color Lithograph
Publisher	London, T. Fisher. Unwin
Printer:	Unwin Brothers, Gresham Press
Source:	Lithography & Lithographers: Some Chapters in the History of Art by Joseph & Elizabeth Robins Pennell, London
Note:	John McLure Hamilton: A leading turn of the century portrait painter and illustrator, J. McLure Hamilton first studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, under Thomas Eakins, and then at the Royal Academy, Antwerp, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris. Although he maintained a permanent Philadelphia address he lived and worked in England for a period of fifty-eight years.
	John McLure Hamilton was a full member of the Philadelphia Water Color Club, the American Federation of Arts, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Pastel Society and the Senefelder Club, London. Today his portraits are included in the following collections; the National Portrait Gallery, London, Luxembourg Museum, Paris and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
	During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries John McLure Hamilton painted the portraits of many contemporary English dignitaries. These included Cardinal Manning, George Meredith, Richard Vaux and Prime Minister Gladstone. He was also the author of Men I have Painted and the official painter to Prime Minister Gladstone.
	Portrait of the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone was one of several original lithographs created for a portfolio published in 1898 by T. Fisher Unwin entitled, Lithography & Lithographers:Some chapters in the history of the art, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell; together with desriptions and technical explanations of modern artistic methods by Joseph Pennel. In this work Pennell examined the artistic advancements of lithography, with particular emphasis on his contemporaries. With this in mind he commissioned original lithographs from seven artists, including John McLure Hamilton, James McNeil Whistler, Alphonse Legros, William Strang, C. H. Shannon and Alexandre Lunois. Most of the lithographs (including this original example) were printed by London's master lithographic printer, Thomas Way.
	William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898) is arguably England's most important nineteenth century statesman. Beginning in 1868, Gladstone was England's Prime Minister on four separate occasions. Under his leadership such important Acts as the English Education Act, the Irish Land Act, and the Irish Home Rule Bill were introduced. A Liberal, William Ewart Gladstone's primary political opponents were Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Salisbury. W. E. Gladstone was also a classical scholar and wrote such books as Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Juvenius Mundi and Landmarks of Homeric Study.
Size:	6 1/2 X 9 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon pale green wove paper and with large, full margins as published in 1898 by T. Fisher Unwin entitled, Lithography & Lithographers:Some chapters in the history of the art, by Elizabeth Robins Pennell; together with desriptions and technical explanations of modern artistic methods by Joseph Pennel. Signed in the stone by the artist to the lower right. A brilliant impression and in excellent condition throughout. Portrait of the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone represents an outstanding example of the portrait art of John McLure Hamilton.
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