Vereker Monteith Hamilton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetVereker Monteith Hamilton
British artist
Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1856
Place of Birth: Argyll, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1931
Profession: painter
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Vereker Monteith Hamilton
- Vereker Monteith Hamilton (14 February 1856 – 1931 Cowden, Kent) was a Scottish artist of military and historical works. He was born in Hafton, Argyll a son of Lieut.
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- Christian Monteith Hamilton of the 92nd Highlanders, and brother of British general Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton.
- His mother Corinna Vereker, daughter of John Vereker, 3rd Viscount Gort, died when he was born.
- He followed his brother to Wellington College in 1871–73, and was destined for the army, and traveled to Dresden in 1873 to spend time with Colonel Dammers.
- However, he chose a career in art instead, following several years in Ceylon from 1873 to 1883 where he grew coffee.
- He studied art under Alphonse Legros at the Slade School where he won a prize in 1886 for landscape painting.
- He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1886 onwards and at the Paris Salon, Glasgow and at the Grosvenor Gallery.
- He traveled to India in 1886 and spent a good deal of time there visiting Simla and Kashmir.
- In late 1893 he was living in Kilberry, Tarbert, Argyllshire. Hamilton's military works focused primarily on contemporary events such as Piper Findlater at Dargai and the Tirah campaigns.
- He exhibited two paintings of the latter campaign entitled Missing and Afridis.
- His painting of Peiwar Kotal was inspired by a conversation with Lord Roberts who encouraged Hamilton to paint the scene.
- Another picture from the Second Afghan War depicted The 92nd at Kandahar, but he considered it a "shocking bit of work", and after its exhibition at the Royal Academy, repainted it with a number of new figures; it was exhibited again under its new title Macpherson's Brigade at Kandahar.
- In 1899, he returned to the subject with his Royal Academy piece Sniping the rear guard.
- During the First World War, the artist who was a conscientious objector served with the British Red Cross. He married Miss Lilian Swainson, granddaughter of ornithologist William John Swainson, and died at Cowden, Kent in 1931 aged 76.
- He had three children; Ian, Marjorie (who married Felix Warre) and Janet (who married diplomat Alexander Wigram Allen Leeper, son of the educationalist Alexander Leeper and grandson of Sir George Wigram Allen).
- Hamilton published an autobiography in 1925 entitled Things that Happened.
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