Philip Gilbert Hamerton

He was unsuccessful at his first literary attempt which was titled “The Isles of Loch Awe and other poems of my youth”; this prompted him for a time to devote fully to his landscape painting. He moved to the Scottish highlands where he camped out and some time later rented the Island of Innistrynych. This is where he eventually settled with his wife a French woman in 1858.

He discovered after a time he was more suited to the criticism of art than he was to actually painting and so moved to the area in France where his wife was from. Here is where he started his ''Painter's Camp in the Highlands'' (1863), this was very successful and paved the way for other works such as ''Etching and Etchers'' (1866), ''Contemporary French Painters” (1867) and as a continuation to the last ‘‘Painting in France after the Decline of Classicism'' (1868). During this time he had become art critic to the “Saturday Review” which meant he had to frequently visit England forcing him to give up the post.  However in 1870 he started his own art journal, “The Portfolio” this was a monthly journal which contained detailed and descriptive expositions of an artist or groups of artists.

Probably the best known and most valuable of his writings ''The Intellectual Life'' was produced in 1873, followed by ''Round my House'' (1876) and ''Modern Frenchmen'' (1879). He also wrote two novels ''Wenderholme'' (1870) and ''Marmorne'' (1878). His final publication was his autobiography; “Philip Gilbert Hamerton (An Autobiography, 1834 – 1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1854 – 1894)”





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