Show R GILBERT ILBERT stony 0 OF F A celebrated artist S CARLER net nii ill arm acu ecu ill gilr d 1 sketch ketch of 0 tin the I 1 in ii I 1 lun ou I 1 I 1 lit trai r who it lie mi 1 kiy lle lej it a 11 hunk k I 1 etui 31 hiker liter ill lit JOHN V OIL I 1 le bart it R A president ot of the etoal ot of painless in ili N ater colors I 1 died tied in london die tile a a other her da at the wa ago age of SO airs e iris Ill beit s firta picture was exhibited in 1936 1 it wai wak a IN nater ater co color lor draw ine ing ir p I 1 its ll 11 was as rhe aart fl lord ord ti by y the protector kichini isih M duke dube of 0 gloucester in the gnip ear he lie exhibited tin oil painting in the koal and in be he at the institution prom tint that time fo forward riNard hie ills pictures pIc were ere sten sen constand cons in the list named galler and cascuna oi ly at the acad emy my moat most of hia tits paintings have been ii and anti tit nun in of them were sug gestie b the cl aisles in ili and humor his ills I 1 rush was busy up to ISO 1890 in which ear he painted odilard 1 lie le vas A as better known to tn the I 1 english speaking public aa as an illustrator of books and periodicals than as a painter among bis his most important illus I 1 ZA 4 I 1 64 0 k I 1 SIR JOH GILBERT R A tra tlona are those ot of an edition ot of shakespeare upon which he spent several kars in ili 1871 he vi I 1 elected president of the royal of painters in NI neater ater colors in N whose hose galleries he be has been a contant con tint exhibitor he vaa nas knighted more than twenty five eye years aco ago in 1876 he as elected a royal academician and was lias also milie a chei cl waller aller of the L legion glon of honor sir john for many years refused to sell any of his paintings painting ith a view to one day presenting them to the nation in 1893 he the collection among the art galleries of london inches tu ches ter birmingham and liverpool at that time he waa was presented bilth ith the freedom of the city of london loudon an ban hon or that was anmer before and has nei ne er since beba given to any artist |