Works Attributed to Karl W. Hamilton

Hamilton, Karl Wilhelm De. German. 1668-1754

• [a]
• Still life with flowers, snake, lizard, frog, snail, dragonfly, butterfly and mushrooms
• Mushroom description: A group of colored agarics and chanterelles
• Location: Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany

• [b]
• Plants with amphibians and insects (Pflanzen mit Anphibien und Insekten)
• Medium: Oil on canvas, 39.8 x 28.4 cm.
• Mushroom description: Boletus cf edulis s.l. (B. aestivalis) on right
• Location: State Gallery, Stuttgart
• Reference: Steensma, S. Otto Marseus van Schrieck Leben und Werk. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag. 1999.

• [c]
• Still life of hunt with fox and birds (Jagtstilleben mit Fuchs und Vögeln) 1751
• Mushroom description: Four boletes and agarics in right foreground
• Location: State Museum, Schwerin, Germany
• Note: Seen by H. Kreisel in a special exhibition, Güstrow, Germany, 1995

• [d]
• Note: Attributed to K. W. Hamilton
• Hunt scene with falcon and heron
• Mushroom description: Lactarius volemus and Cantharellus cibarius
• Location: Schloss Schönbrunn, Vienna
• Note: Seen by H. Kreisel in 1997

• [e]
• Untitled
• Location: University of Würzburg (inventory # 237)
• Note: S. Killermann, 1927.

• [f]
• Forest understory with view over a mountain landscape with roses, fungi, a lizard, frog and butterfly
• Mushroom description: A single Amanita caesarea in the middle
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [g]
• A forest floor still life with a lizard, mushrooms, ladybirds and a thistle by tree trunk on a riverbank, a frog, a dragonfly, butterflies, a snake
• Mushroom description: Reddish agaric
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [h]
• Forest floor still life with a frog, lizard, butterflies and a dragonfly
• Mushroom description: Red capped mushroom in right background
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [i]
• Two forest understories with reptiles and a frog
• Location: Unknown
• Mushroom description: Several big mushrooms (in black and white, thus color is indeterminate)
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [j]
• Forest floor still lifes with snails, lizards, snakes, butterflies, fungi, and thistles near a tree trunk.
• Mushroom description: Several large mushrooms (in black an white, thus color is indeterminate)
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [k]
• Forest understory (Waldboden) with dead frog, snails, moth, dragonfly, plant, mushrooms
• Mushroom description: Two red mushrooms
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [l]
• Birds, a lizard, a red snake, a white butterfly and a wasp among nettles and flowers in a landscape
• Mushroom description: Two red mushrooms
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [m]
• Forest floor still lifes with lizards, snakes, painted butterflies, a red tiger moth, snails, thistle and Convolvulus
• Mushroom description: One red mushrooms on left, two on right
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [n]
• Forest floor still lifes with a snake, butterflies lizards, snails, thistle and Convolvulus
• Mushroom description: Two red mushrooms in each
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [o]
• A forest floor still life with a lizard, mushrooms, ladybirds and a thistle by a tree trunk on a river bank, etc.
• Mushroom description: Several large mushrooms (in black an white, thus color is indeterminate)
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [p]
• A forest floor still life with a snake, snails, a caterpillar, a lizard, and a butterfly
• Mushroom description: Two red mushrooms
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Gabrius website

• [q]
• Untitled
• Mushroom description: Cantharellus cibarius
• Location: Unknown
• Note: S. Killermann, 1927.

• [r]
• A hare with mushrooms and leaves
• Medium: Oil on canvas; size: 57 x 48 cm., framed
• Mushroom description: In circle. On right, one Amanita caesarea, on left two Leccinum (scabrum?)
• Location: Unknown
• Reference: Dorotheum auction: Old Master Paintings, October 15, 2008

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