George Hitchcock (September 29, 1850 – August 2, 1913) was an American painter, born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was mostly lithe in Europe, notably in the Netherlands.
Hitchcock graduated from Brown University, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He after that turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre at the Académie Julian in Paris.
He attracted broadcast in the Paris Salon of 1885 in the same way as his Tulip Growing, of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio near Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, where he started his “Art Summer School” that forward-looking resulted in a work of returning summer artists that informally became the Egmondse School (1890-1905). He time-honored these students and guests at his “Huis Schuylenburgh”, a large house in Egmond aan den Hoef.
He became a chevalier of the French Legion of Honour and a devotee of the Vienna Academy of Arts, the Munich Secession Society, and further art bodies, and is represented in the Dresden gallery, the imperial hoard in Vienna, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1909 he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician.
At the era of his death, he was busy in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken, Netherlands.
Hitchcock was married to the painter Cecil Jay.
This article incorporates text from a declaration now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). “Hitchcock, George”. Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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