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Gavin Hamilton

Born: Murdieston, Scotland, 1723
Died: Rome, 4 January 1798
Nationality: Scottish
Studies: 

Glasgow University (1740s); with portrait painter Agostino Masucci (from 1748, Rome)

Career: 

painter, art and antiquities dealer, archaeologist

Travels

1748: moves to Rome. Friend of Anton Raphael Mengs, Heinrich Fuseli and other artists working in Rome

Commissions from: 

Prince Marcantonio IV Borghese

Important Artworks: 

Brutus Promising to Avenge the Death of Lucretia, 1763 (Drury Lane Theater, London)