Hugh Douglas Hamilton

Hugh Douglas Hamilton
Self-portrait, c. 1785–1790
Bornc. 1739
Dublin, Ireland
Died10 February 1808(1808-02-10) (aged 67–68)
Dublin, Ireland

Hugh Douglas Hamilton RHA (c.1739 10 February 1808) was an Irish portrait-painter. He spent considerable periods in London and Rome before returning to Dublin in the early 1790s. Until the mid-1770s, he worked mostly in pastel. His style influenced the English painter Lewis Vaslet (1742–1808).