Letitia Hamilton

Irish painter Letitia Hamilton won the bronze medal at the 1948 art competitions in London in the paintings category with her work Meath Hunt Point-to-Point Races. She studied at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin under Sir William Orpen, where she learned drawing and painting, together with her sister Eva, who became a portraitist. Her cousin was the watercolorist Rose Barton. Hamilton then continued her studies in London at the Slade School and in Belgium.

After some travels to Italy and Continental Europe, Hamilton became one of the founders of the Society of Dublin Painters in 1920. She mainly painted landscapes of the Irish countryside. Hamilton worked by creating small oil sketches, which were later developed into finished works, painting rapidly, and had a loose and fluid touch.

Her bronze medal-winning work is shown in the catalog and evidenced by a photograph of the family. The whereabouts of the oil painting are unknown, however, although it is believed to be in America. Her second entry, Punchestown Races, is assumed to be an oil painting in the format 56 x 66 cm and was exhibited again at the art exhibition of the Helsinki Olympics in 1952.