Background
Hamilton, John Mclure was born on January 31, 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George (Doctor of Medicine and Caroline (Delaplaine) H.
Hamilton, John Mclure was born on January 31, 1853 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of George (Doctor of Medicine and Caroline (Delaplaine) H.
Studied at Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, Royal Academy, Antwerp, Jerôme Atelier, Beaux Arts, Paris. Settled in London, 1878.
Specialty, portraits and pastels. Principal works: Gladstone (in Luxembourg Gallery). Gladstone at Hawarden, Richard Vaux, Cardinal Manning, George Meredith, and Henry Thonron, in Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts.
Professor Tyndall, Onslow Ford, Cosmo Monkhouse, and M. Ridley Corbet, in National Portrait Gallery, London.
Professor Lewis Campbell, in University of Saint Andrews: portraits of General Booth, Doctor Archibald Geikie, Colonel Edward M. House, Joseph Pennell, Charles M. Burns, Judge Alexander Simpson, et cetera Honorary mention Paris Salon.
Gold medals, Buffalo, Saint Louis, Pennsylvania Academy, et cetera
Member advisory committee Panama-Pacific Exposition, 1915.