Mary riter hamilton biography broadway

Artist.

Born at Walkerton, Ontario on 7 September 1869, daughter of Charity Zimmerman (1837-1915) and John Riter (?-?), she came to Clearwater with her family at an early age.

In 1889, after she married Charles Wallace Hamilton (?-1893), they moved to Port Arthur [now Thunder Bay], Ontario, where her husband was a leading merchant. His death left her independently wealthy.

She moved to Winnipeg and began painting china in 1894.

Mary riter hamilton biography broadway

Hamilton went to Europe in 1901 to study art, and for the most part she remained in Paris until 1911, occasionally returning to Canada. By 1905 some of her painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon. She returned to Winnipeg in 1911 to mount a major exhibition of her work.

After the First World War she obtained a publisher’s commission to “reproduce the battlefields in paint,” and she remained abroad until 1922, producing over 300 paintings and innumerable sketches. Her work was exhibi