George Hitchcock(1850-1913) was an American painter who spent much of his career in the Netherlands. He was born in Providence Rhode Island and left for Europe at a young age. In 1890 he set up his own Art Summer School in the Dutch Village of Egmond-Binnen. he wintered in Paris and spent the summers in Egmond. I love it that he died in a houseboat in the harbor of Marken in 1913. He was obviously taken with the flower fields of Holland. In the not too distant future, I hope to visit these beautiful fields in the spring. Tops on my list is Keukenhof flower park which boasts of plantings of 7 million bulbs ! A bucket list candidate for sure.
