Italy. 1777 - 1850
Painting and sculpture
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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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A LIFE-SIZE MARBLE FIGURE OF CUPID, ENTITLED 'LOVE TORMENTING THE SOUL'
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Maharajah Duleep Singh, last ruler of the Punjab
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United States, United Kingdom. 1786 - 1860
Portrait bust, funerary monument, religious and dog sculpture
France. 1829 - 1905
Sculpture, painting
United Kingdom, England. 1850 - 1925
Public heroic male figure sculpture, medallic art, classiscism
United Kingdom, Austria. 1834 - 1890
Sculptor; Medalist
England. 1854 - 1934
Sculpture, goldsmithing, painting
Switzerland, France. 1790 - 1852
Neo-classical mythology themed sculpture
France. 1850 - 1934
Sculpture
Italy. 1795 - 1878
Sculpture
District Of Columbia, Ohio, Vermont / Italy. 1805 - 1873
Marble sculpture-neo classical figure
France. 1862 - 1934
Sculpture
United Kingdom, England, Germany. 1830 - 1896
Painting and sculpture
France. 1827 - 1905
Sculpture
France, England. 1836 - 1914
Sculpture of royalty figures, caricature
France. 1784 - 1855
Sculpture
Italy. 1848 - 1893
Allegorical and genre sculpture
France. 1824 - 1904
Detailed historical painting, Orientalism, erotic subjects, sculpture, teaching
France. 1858 - 1924
Sculpture, participation in Salon exhibitions
France. 1842 - 1923
Neoclassical and neobaroque style sculptures and monuments
France. 1845 - 1916
Sculpture
Italy, France. 1852 - 1929
Portrait and figure drawing, sculpture, painting
France. 1841 - 1923
Art nouveau sculpture
France. 1851 - 1924
Animal sculpture
France. 1841 - 1905
Beaux-Arts sculpture, public monuments
France. 1814 - 1883
Sculpture, painting
France, England. 1838 - 1902
Allegory figure and commemorative sculpture
Italy, France. 1883 - 1966
Modernist, expressionist sculpture, portrait bust
France. 1827 - 1875
Figure sculpture, painting, and drawings