The Blessed Mother, George Hitchcock (1892)
George Hitchcock was an American painter, born in Providence, Rhode Island, and was mostly active in Europe, notably in the Netherlands.
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 near Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands, where he started his "Art Summer School" that later resulted in a group of returning summer artists that informally became the Egmondse School (1890-1905). He received these students and guests at his "Huis Schuylenburgh", a large estate in Egmond aan den Hoef.
