This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Somerfield, Ohio, Wilbur Hamilton became an important member of
the Boston School of Painting. He studied at Ecolé de Beaux Arts
in Paris and at the Academy Julian.
He was a member of Boston’s Copley Society and St. Botolph Club and
was a medal recipient at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in
San Francisco, 1915.
He taught at Massachusetts Normal Art School, and his work is
represented in the collections of the Rhode Island School of Design and
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Submitted by Edward Bentley, Researcher, Lansing, Michigan.
Information courtesy of James Keny, Keny Galleries of Columbus, Ohio.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Pennsylvania and studying painting in Boston, he was a teacher at the Massachusetts Normal Art School from 1892 to 1942 and ran a summer school in Kingston, Massachusetts. He was an impressionist landscape, genre, and portrait painter and was especially noted for garden landscapes.
He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and in 1883 moved to Providence, Rhode Island where he studied with Tomasso Juglaris at the Rhode Island School of Design.
In 1892, he returned to Boston, setting up a studio on Boylston Street and exhibiting at the Boston Art Club and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He died in Kingston in 1943.
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