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Sun, Aug 17, 2025 11:00AM EDT
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Over 900 lots will be offered in day 2 of our 2 day auction weekend! There are multiple lots of important fine art from landscapes and etchings to old masters and portraits. We have a Collection of Yosemite Valley Paintings, Oriental Rugs, Sterling Silver, a Lifetime Collection of Sevres Urns, Old Master Paintings, Asian Antiquities, and more!
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Lot 1013

James Hamilton (1818-1878) American, Large Oil on Canvas "New York Harbor" in the Original Frame Signed

Estimate: $4,000 - $8,000
Starting Bid
$2,000

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James Hamilton (1818-1878) American, Large Oil on Canvas "New York Harbor" in the Original Frame Signed. Signed lower right. 

Condition as pictured.

Overall Size: 33 x 40 1/2 in.

Sight Size: 20 1/2 x 30 in.

 

Born in Ireland, James Hamilton became a landscape painter and is credited with painting one of the first American seascapes, The Sea at Atlantic City, in 1868. Few of his seascapes have survived, but exhibition records reveal that he did numerous coastal scenes from New York to Maryland. He came to the United States, settling with his family in Philadelphia, at age fifteen.  His early teachers are unknown, but he had guidance in book and magazine illustration.  He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and in addition to painting, gained skill in engraving and etching. He was a great admirer of the landscapes of English painter J.M.W. Turner, and became known as the "American Turner" because of his vivid lighting effects in coastal scenes and seascapes.  His only recorded trip abroad was to England in 1854 and 1855, and he studied Turner's paintings while there.  He also had a studio in Wilmington, Delaware, but mainly he lived in Philadelphia. One of Hamilton's paintings, What Are the Wild Waves Saying, was inspired by a scene from Charles Dicken's novel Dombey and Son.  Hamilton gave the painting to Dickens, and Dickens, expressing much appreciation, later said it was the only gift he accepted during his American tour. Hamilton also became well known for illustrations of the book Arctic Explorations by Elisha Kent Kane. In 1878, he died in San Francisco, attempting but not completing a trip around the world.

 

Provenance: Private collection, California.

Condition as pictured.

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Private collection, California.

33 x 40 1/2 in.