On the Banks of the Ouse, by Hulton, 1900
Palazzo Donà, Venice, in 2011

William Stokes Hulton (23 October 1852 - 1921) was a British artist.

William Stokes Hulton was born in 1852, the son of Rev. Campbell Basset Arthur Grey Hulton (1813-1878) and Sarah Stokes Fletcher.[1]

He was friends with John Singer Sargent as well as Reginald Barratt and Walter Sickert, with whom he would go on painting trips to Italy.[2]

Hulton married Costanza, the daughter of English author and translator Linda White Mazini Villari, and stepdaughter of Pasquale Villari, an Italian historian and politician. The Hultons lived in Palazzo Donà in Venice.[2]

They had two daughters, Gioconda Mary Hulton and Edith Teresa Hulton.[2] In 1919, Edith Teresa Hulton (1890-1972) married Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick.[2] Edith lived at Attingham Park until her death in a car accident.[3]

Gioconda "Gio" Hulton was born in Venice on 5 October 1887, and died 18 September 1940 in a motor coach accident and was buried in Nice, France.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Mary Stokes, Mrs Samuel Fletcher (d.1821)". National Trust. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Gioconda Mary Hulton (1887-1940) in the Palazzo Dona, Venice". National Trust. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Attingham Park treasures reveale". Shropshire Council. 25 March 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
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