Glasgow University (1740s); with portrait painter Agostino Masucci (from 1748, Rome)
painter, art and antiquities dealer, archaeologist
1748: moves to Rome. Friend of Anton Raphael Mengs, Heinrich Fuseli and other artists working in Rome
Prince Marcantonio IV Borghese
Brutus Promising to Avenge the Death of Lucretia, 1763 (Drury Lane Theater, London)
The Oath of Brutus, 1767 (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)
Agrippina Landing at Brindisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, c. 1765 (Tate, London)
Venus Promising Paris Helen as his Wife, 1782-84 (Palazzo Braschi, Rome)
Irish sculptor Christopher Hewetson (1737-1798), also residing in Rome, made a plaster bust of Hamilton in 1784 (University Art Collection, Glasgow).
Cassidy, Brendan. Gavin Hamilton (1723-1798): Artist, Antiquarian and Art Dealer in Eighteenth-Century Rome. Turnhout: Brepols, 2010
Irwin, David. “Gavin Hamilton: Archaeologist, Painter, and Dealer,” The Art Bulletin, vol. 44, no. 2 (June 1962): 87-102