George Hitchcock (September 29, 1850 – August 2, 1913) was an American painter, born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was mostly active in Europe, notably in the Netherlands.

[1] He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris in 1882.

[2][3] He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his Tulip Growing, of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands.

[1] He received these students and guests at his "Huis Schuylenburgh", a large estate in Egmond aan den Hoef.

He divorced her on July 31, 1905, and nine days later married Cecil Jay,[4] a student at the Art Summer School who was thirty-three years his junior.