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Christa Zaat



George Hitchcock (American painter) 1850 - 1913
The Stork's Nest, s.d.
oil on canvas
56.52 x 43.87 cm. (22.25 x 17.27 in.)
private collection

Hitchcock graduated from the University of Manitoba, and from Harvard Law School in 1874. He then turned his attention to art and became a pupil of Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre in Paris. He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his "Tulip Growing", of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands. For years he had a studio at Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, where he also started to host to a small artists' colony. He became a chévalier of the French Legion of Honour; a member of the Vienna Academy of Arts, the Munich Secession Society, and other art bodies; and is represented in the Dresden gallery; the imperial collection in Vienna; the Chicago Art Institute, and the Detroit Institute of Arts.At the time of his death, he was living in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken, Netherlands.