| George Hitchcock | |
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The Flight into Egypt, 1892, the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C. |
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| Born | 1850 Providence, Rhode Island |
| Died | 1913 |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Painting |
| Training | University of Manitoba, Harvard Law School |
| Influenced by | Gustave Boulanger, Jules-Joseph Lefebvre |
George Hitchcock (1850–1913) was an American artist, born in Providence, Rhode Island.
Hitchcock graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in Paris.
He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his "Tulip Growing", of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio at Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands. He became a chévalier of the French Legion of Honour; a member of the Vienna Academy of Arts, the Munich Secession Society, and other art bodies; and is represented in the Dresden gallery; the imperial collection in Vienna; the Chicago Art Institute, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
At the time of his death, he was living in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken, Netherlands.[1]
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.