Show ray PAINTER R MUM GILBERT STORY OP OF A celebrated ARTISTS CAREER brief biographical sketch of 0 the fillou i Lon london clott illustrator who recently away ho led as a it a hook book victure maker IR JOHN gilbert R A president of the royal society of painters Pal liters in water colors died in london the 97 other day at the age of SO 80 years gilberts first picture was exhibited i in 1836 it was a water color drawing and its subject was the arrest of lord hastings by the protector richard duke of gloucester in the same year lip ho exhibited an oil painting in the royal academy and in he exhibited at the british institution from that time forward his pictures were seen constantly in the last named gallery and occasionally at ai the academy most alost of his paintings have been historical and many of them were suggested by the classics in english and continental humor his brush was b busy ausy up to 1890 in which year he painted onward he was better known to the english speaking public as an illustrator of books and periodicals than as a painter among his most important illus A 17 I 1 v 1 1 1 21 Q xi SIR IR JOHN GILBERT R A orations trat lons ions are those of an edition of Shahe shakespeare speare upon which he spent several years in 1871 he was elected president of the royal society of painters in water colors in whose galleries he has been a constant exhibitor ile he was knighted more than twenty five years ago in 1876 he was elected a roy royal 1 I academician and was alho albo made a chevalier of the legion of honor sir john for many years refused to sell any of his paintings with a view to one day present presenting ipg them to the nation in 1893 1 lie he divided the collection among the art galleries of london manchester ti r birmingham and liverpool at that line he was presented with the fie freedom edora of alp lip city of london an honor bomor that was never before and has never pince been given to any ortist artist |