Hamilton, Carl W. |
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Collector Dealer/Gallery |
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dates
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1886-1967 |
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city
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New York City |
| state | NY | | other cities | Hollisday, PA; New Haven, CT; Hollidaysburg, PA; Andover, MA; New Haven, CT; Manila, Philippines; Great Neck, NY; |
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historical notes
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Carl W. Hamilton was an industrialist (Philippine Refining Corp.) and art collector. Hamilton focused his collecting on works of art from the Renaissance.
Hamilton lent work from his collection to exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, to the Grand Central Galleries and American Federation of Arts. His collection included work by, among others, Piero della Francesca, Fra Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Giovanni Bellini, Benvenuto di Giovanni, Francesco Botticini (Francesco di Giovanni), Domenico Veneziano, Sandro Botticelli, Puccio di Simone and Allegretto Nuzi, Titian, dei Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio and Mantegna.
A small oil painting Piero Della Francesca of the crucifixion, from Hamilton’s collection, set an auction record in 1929 when it was sold to Duveen for $375,000. Hamilton lent work from his collection to exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Art Institute, Montclair Museum in New Jersey, the Grand Central Galleries and American Federation of Arts.
The Hamilton home in Great Neck, New York housed Renaissance paintings, sculptures, tapestries and bric-a-brac. When his collection outgrew his Great Neck home he moved to a 14-room apartment on Park Avenue, Manhattan. Never married, Hamilton had one adopted son, John Gordon Hamilton of Oxford, North Carolina.
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decades
of activity | 1920-1930
1930-1940
1940-1950
1950-1960
1960-1970
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Archives/Repository |
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Collection Details |
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, |
Harry L Dalton Papers, 1776-1990 (bulk dates 1915-1990) |
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Archives of American Art
Victor Building, Suite 2200 |
Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner papers, 1853-1977 |
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North Carolina State Archives
109 E. Jones St.
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Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner papers, 1904-1958. |
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The G. Robert Strauss, Jr. Memorial Library
Albright-Knox Art Gallery |
William M. Hekking Records, 1925-1931 |
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Biblioteca Berenson, Villa I Tatti
The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies |
The Fototeca Berenson (Villa I Tatti Photo Archives) |
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The Getty Research Institute
Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections |
Duveen Brothers Records, 1876-1981, bulk 1909-1964 |
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