- Arthur Gilbert
Arthur Gilbert born Arthur Gilbert Frederick Williams (
19 December 1819 Stoke Newington ,London -21 April 1895 Croydon ), was a Victorian painter and the fourth son of Edward Williams (1782-1855) and Ann Hildebrandt.He married Elizabeth Jane Williams, daughter of John Williams, on 23 January 1843 in
St Martin in the Fields . From all accounts Arthur had a gentle disposition and was a most devoted husband and father. In 1848 he lost his first wife, Elizabeth, due totuberculosis . He was left with their daughter, Kate Elizabeth Ellen Gilbert Williams, who had been born on 17 December 1843.He married his second wife, Sarah Godfrey, the daughter of John Godfrey, a clerk, on 28 June 1854, at the Parish Church in Barnes. Their son Horace Walter Gilbert was born the following year on 6 April 1855. Both the children displayed artistic talent and later painted and exhibited. [ [http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/n/i/s/Patrick-T-Nisbett/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0106.html Patrick Nisbett] ]
Arthur Gilbert had addresses in
Weybridge andHammersmith , but spent most of his years at Lonsdale Terrace in Barnes, close to his father and brothers.He moved to Redhill in 1873 and then to "De Tillens" in
Limpsfield ,Surrey . This was his home for many years, to well after the marriage of his son, who produced some fine watercolours of the place. [ [http://www.haynesfineart.com/artists/arthur-gilbert.htm Haynes Fine Art of Broadway] ] Arthur Gilbert became known for painting moonlit and night scenes, many of which were exhibited in London. [ [http://www.nmm.ac.uk/searchbin/searchs.pl?exhibit=it3352z&axis=1214550662&flash=&dev= National Maritime Museum] ]Related pages
*Edward Williams
*Edward Charles Williams
*Henry John Boddington
*George Augustus Williams
*Sidney Richard Percy
*Alfred Walter Williams References
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