Hamilton Irving Marlatt was an American born painter from Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

 well known in the region for his many depictions of the American Southwest. He also painted many watercolors and pastels of scenes from upstate New York. In several publications, including the Saturday Evening Post, for which he was an illustrator, he is listed as Hector Irving Marlatt rather than Hamilton Irving Marlatt. He signed his paintings and illustrations with "H. I. Marlatt". He was the son of artist Wilson Marlatt.

Marlatt studied art in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 as part of the Barbizon school

Barbizon school

The Barbizon school of painters were part of a movement towards realism in art, which arose in the context of the dominant Romantic Movement of the time. The Barbizon school was active roughly from 1830 through 1870...

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See also

American Barbizon school

American Barbizon school

The American Barbizon School was a group of painters and style partly influenced by the French Barbizon school. American Barbizon artists concentrated on painting rural landscapes often including peasants or farm animals....