William Hamilton Gibson

William Hamilton Gibson

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death_date = July 16, 1896
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William Hamilton Gibson (October 5, 1850 - July 16, 1896) was an American illustrator, author and naturalist.

Gibson was born in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. The financial failure and in 1868 the death of his father, a New York broker, put an end to his studies in the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and made it necessary for him to earn his own living. From the life insurance business, in Brooklyn, he soon turned to the study of natural history and illustration, he had sketched flowers and insects when he was only eight years old, had long been interested in botany and entomology, and had acquired great skill in making faux flowers. His first drawings, of a technical character, were published in 1870.

He rapidly became an expert illustrator and a remarkably able wood-engraver, while he also drew on tone with great success. He drew for "The American Agriculturist", "Hearth and Home", and "Appletons American Cycloaedia"; for The Youths Companion and St Nicholas; and then or various Harper publications, especially "Harper's Monthly" magazine, where his illustrations first gained popularity. He died of apoplexy, brought on by overwork at Washington, Connecticut, where he had had a summer studio, and where in a great boulder is inset a relief portrait of him by H. K. Bush-Brown. He was an expert photographer, and his drawings had a nearly photographic and almost microscopic accuracy of detail which slightly lessened their artistic value, as a poetic and sometimes humorous quality somewhat detracted from their scientific worth. Gibson was perfectly at home in black-and-white, but rarely (and feebly) used colors. He was a popular writer and lecturer on natural history.

Gibson illustrated S. A. Drakes In the "Heart of the White Mountains", C. D. Warners "New South", and E. P. Poes "Natures Serial Story"; and his own books, "The Complete American Trapper" (1876; revised, 1880, as "Camp Life in the Woods"); "Pastoral Days": or, Memories of a New England Year (1880); "Highways and Byways" (1882); "Happy Hunting Grounds" (1886); "Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine" (1890); "Sharp Eyes: a Ramblers Calendar" (1891); "Our Edible Mushrooms and Toadstools "(1895); "Eye Spy: A Field with Nature among Flowers and Animate Things" (1897); and My Studio Neighbours" (1898).

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