Complex sentence: Hugh Douglas Hamilton (c.1740--10 February 1808) was an Irish portrait-painter who was born in Crow Street, in Dublin, Ireland, in 1740, the son of a peruke maker.
Split into simpler sentences: Hugh Douglas Hamilton (c.1740--10 February 1808) was an Irish portrait-painter. Hamilton was born in Crow Street, in Dublin, Ireland, in 1740, the son of a peruke maker.