[1] Cuthbert Hamilton went to the Slade School of Art and was a contemporary of Wyndham Lewis.

[1] In 1912 he helped with decorations for the Cave of the Golden Calf with Wyndham Lewis, and the next year he became part of the Omega Workshops.

Hamilton left the workshops with other artists William Roberts, Frederick Etchells, Edward Wadsworth, and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

They all supported Wyndham Lewis and united with him in March 1914, when he started the Rebel Art Centre.

[2] Hamilton married the daughter of a powerful insurance businessman, and in 1920 he closed the Yeoman Pottery, giving up all his artistic work.