Letitia Marion Hamilton

Letitia Marion Hamilton (30 July 1878 – 11 August 1964) was an Irish landscape artist and Olympic bronze medallist.

Letitia and her sister Eva were great-granddaughters of the artist Marianne-Caroline Hamilton, and cousins of watercolourist Rose Maynard Barton.

The sisters' father could only afford one dowry, so Letitia and Eva remained unmarried, with their artistic careers helping to support the household.

[3] Both sisters travelled widely in Europe, with Letitia being influenced by modern European artistic trends of the early 20th-century.

In the early 1920s, Hamilton travelled to Venice, painting on a gondola studio lent to her by artist and friend Ada Longfield.

Her painting Canal Scene In Venice attained the highest price for a Hamilton work in 2004, which sold at Sotheby's, in London, for £33,600.