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Another Shore by George Hitchcock5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Bring a piece of the Old World into your home and purchase vintage figural paintings offered online and at auction. PERIOD MAPS, ONE 1875PRINTED AND HAND COLORED, THEOTHER 1850 HAND COLORED. In addition to Hitchcock's figural paintings for sale, which often depicted peasant women in traditional dress, he created paintings of rural scenes and religious subjects. View George Hitchcock artworks sold at auction to research and compare prices. ![]() From 1890 to 1905, Hitchcock kept a studio in Northern Holland and welcomed artists to his Art Summer School program, informally recognized as the Egmondse School. His renowned La Culture des Tulipes, with it's extraordinary light effects, helped get him the name of the painter of sunlight. In 1880, he moved to the Netherlands, remaining there for the rest of his life.Īs an artist, George Hitchcock was influenced by the Impressionists. A graduate of Harvard and Brown, he pursued an unsuccessful law career before leaving America at 29 to study art at the Paris Academie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. Artist and painter George Hitchcock was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1850. ![]()
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