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J GILBERT

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 8 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GILBERT  .-See also:GILBERT, See also:MARIE See also:painting the Portrait of See also:Anne See also:Boleyn," " See also:Don Quixote's first Interview with the See also:Duke and Duchess," 1842, " See also:Charlemagne visiting the See also:Schools," 1846 . " Touchstone and the Shepherd," and " See also:Rembrandt," a very See also:fine piece, were both there in 1867; and in 1873 " See also:Naseby," one of his finest and most picturesque designs, was also at the Royal See also:Academy . Gilbert was elected A.R.A . 29th See also:January 1872, and R.A . 29th See also:June 1876 . Besides these mostly large and powerful See also:works, the artist's true See also:arena of display was undoubtedly the See also:gallery of the Old See also:Water See also:Colour Society, to which from 1852, when he was elected an See also:Associate exhibitor, till he died See also:forty-five years later, he contributed not fewer than 270 drawings, most of them admirable because of the largeness of their See also:style, massive coloration, broad See also:chiaroscuro, and the surpassing vigour of their designs . These qualities induced the leading critics to claim for him opportunities for painting mural pictures of See also:great historic themes as decorations of See also:national buildings . " The See also:Trumpeter," " The See also:Standard-See also:Bearer," " See also:Richard II. resigning his See also:Crown " (now at See also:Liverpool), " The See also:Drug See also:Bazaar at See also:Constantinople," " The See also:Merchant of See also:Venice " and " The See also:Turkish Water-See also:Carrier " are but examples of that See also:wealth of See also:art which added to the attractions of the gallery in See also:Pall Mall . There Gilbert was elected a full Member in 1855, and See also:president of the Society in 1871, shortly after which he was knighted . As an illustrator of books, magazines and See also:periodicals of every See also:kind he was most prolific . To the success of the Illustrated See also:London See also:News his designs See also:lent powerful aid, and he was eminently serviceable in illustrating the See also:Shakespeare of Mr See also:Howard See also:Staunton . He died on the 6th of See also:October 1897 .

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