F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

Frederick Hamilton Jackson (1848–1923), often published as F. Hamilton Jackson, was an English painter, designer, and author. He trained at the Royal Academy Schools, won a first-class medal there, and later taught at the Slade School of Art.

He was deeply involved in the artistic life of his time: a founder of the Society of Designers and the London Sketch Club, a member of the Art Workers' Guild, and later a vice-president of the Royal Society of British Artists. Alongside painting and design work, he also created church decoration, including stained glass for St Alban's Church in Acton Green and a mosaic reredos for St Bartholomew's Church in Brighton.

As a writer, he is especially remembered for books that draw on his eye for art and architecture, including Intarsia and Marquetry, Mural Painting, True Stories of the Condottieri, and his travel studies of the Adriatic and the Pyrenees. His work often sits at the meeting point of art history, travel writing, and practical craftsmanship, which gives it a distinctive richness and clarity.