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1790 Gyffin, Caernarvonshire, Wales - 1866 Rome, Italy. Known for: Marble portrait bust sculpture, allegory and mythology.
John Gibson, (born June 19, 1790, Gyffin, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died Jan. 27, 1866, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), British Neoclassical sculptor who tried to revive the ancient Greek practice of... Read full biography
John Gibson, (born June 19, 1790, Gyffin, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died Jan. 27, 1866, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), British Neoclassical sculptor who tried to revive the ancient Greek practice of tinting marble sculptures. In 1804 Gibson was apprenticed to a monument mason in Liverpool, where he... Read full biography
John Gibson, (born June 19, 1790, Gyffin, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died Jan. 27, 1866, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), British Neoclassical sculptor who tried to revive the ancient Greek practice of tinting marble sculptures. In 1804 Gibson was apprenticed to a monument mason in Liverpool, where he remained until 1817. One of his first Royal Academy submissions, Psyche Borne on the Wings of Zephyrus (1816), was praised by John Flaxman, who persuaded him to go to Rome in 1817. There he was befriended... Read full biography
John Gibson, (born June 19, 1790, Gyffin, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died Jan. 27, 1866, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), British Neoclassical sculptor who tried to revive the ancient Greek practice of tinting marble sculptures. In 1804 Gibson was apprenticed to a monument mason in Liverpool, where he remained until 1817. One of his first Royal Academy submissions, Psyche Borne on the Wings of Zephyrus (1816), was praised by John Flaxman, who persuaded him to go to Rome in 1817. There he was befriended by Antonio Canova, and he was also instructed after 1822 by Bertel Thorvaldsen. Challenging the Neoclassical tenor of the whiteness of antique sculpture, Gibson put into practice new theories about the ancient Greek practice of painting skin colour... Read full biography
John Gibson, (born June 19, 1790, Gyffin, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died Jan. 27, 1866, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), British Neoclassical sculptor who tried to revive the ancient Greek practice of tinting marble sculptures. In 1804 Gibson was apprenticed to a monument mason in Liverpool, where he remained until 1817. One of his first Royal Academy submissions, Psyche Borne on the Wings of Zephyrus (1816), was praised by John Flaxman, who persuaded him to go to Rome in 1817. There he was befriended by Antonio Canova, and he was also instructed after 1822 by Bertel Thorvaldsen. Challenging the Neoclassical tenor of the whiteness of antique sculpture, Gibson put into practice new theories about the ancient Greek practice of painting skin colour and facial details onto carved marble figures. He introduced colour onto a statue of Queen Victoria done for Liverpool in 1847, ti... Read full biography
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John Gibson, (born June 19, 1790, Gyffin, Caernarvonshire, Wales—died Jan. 27, 1866, Rome, Papal States [Italy]), British Neoclassical sculptor who tried to revive the ancient Greek practice of tinting marble sculptures.
In 1804 Gibson was apprenticed to a monument mason in Liverpool, where he remained until 1817. One of his first Royal Academy submissions, Psyche Borne on the Wings of Zephyrus (1816), was praised by John Flaxman, who persuaded him to go to Rome in 1817. There he was befriended by Antonio Canova, and he was also instructed after 1822 by Bertel Thorvaldsen.
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