HAMILTON, John
(active 1750s in Vienna)
HAMILTON, John (active 1750s in Vienna) |
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A Tigress with her Cubs Threatened by a Crocodile1753Oil on canvas, 123 x 169 cm Private collection | |
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The painting is signed and dated: J. B. A. George de Hamilton Pinx 1753. This signature suggests an attribution to John Hamilton, an artist active in Vienna in the mid-18th century. This canvas is one from a pair, entitled A Lion and a Tiger, and A Tigress with her Cubs Threatened by a Crocodile. The designs in these two paintings relate to a pair of paintings, possibly pendants, executed by Peter Paul Rubens in circa 1615. The tigress with her cubs in the present canvas derive from a detail of Rubens's Four Continents (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna). | |
