About the Artwork
Hamilton chose an English nature poem, "The Seasons," as the subject of this romantic painting. In the section on Summer, the poem tells of the young lovers Celadon and Amelia, a perfect couple who were caught in a summer storm. Amelia was overcome by the powerful force of the tempest and died in the arms of her horrified and distraught lover.
Celadon and Amelia
1793
William Hamilton
1751-1801
English
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 60 5/8 × 48 7/8 inches (154 × 124.1 cm) Framed: 69 1/8 × 57 × 2 3/4 inches (175.6 × 144.8 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Founders Society Purchase
68.159
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed and dated, lower right: Wm Hamilton R.A. | 1793
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Provenance
Count de Aulby (England)
Wilbur Foshay (England)
(Brown and Bigelow)
by 1965, Robert Edward Peters (New York, New York, USA)
1968, (Max Schweitzer, New York, New York, USA)
1968-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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English Revivalism: 1750-1870, The Aesthetic of Nostalgia. Exh. cat., University of Michigan Musuem of Art. Ann Arbor, 1968, p. 7.
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1915–1965. Exh. cat., Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Minneapolis, 1965, unpaginated (ill.). [as The Rescue.]
Cummings, Frederick J., ed. Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1979, p. 85, no. 55 (ill.).
Love Everlasting: The Art of Romance Through the Millennia. Exh. cat., Flint Institute of Arts. Flint, 2000, pp. 74-75, cat. 32 (ill.).
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William Hamilton, Celadon and Amelia, 1793, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, 68.159.
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