Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton

[1][2] Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton was one of a large family of artists active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

He was the son and pupil of Scottish still life painter James de Hamilton (c.1640-1720), who settled and worked in Brussels.

[2] His brothers Philipp Ferdinand (c.1664-1750) and Johann Georg (1672-1737) were both active in Vienna, while Karl Wilhelm worked mainly in Germany, first in Baden-Baden and later in Augsburg, where he served as valet and court painter to Bishop Alexander Sigismund von der Pfalz-Neuburg.

[1] Among his most famous works are several variations on a landscape known as The Parliament of Birds, based on a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer written around 1380.

[2] The following collections contain work(s) by Karl Wilhelm de Hamilton: