William Gibson (painter)

William Gibson (1644–1702) was an English miniature painter. He was a pupil and copyist of Lely.

Mary Eyre, née Bigoe, attributed to Gibson

Life

William Gibson was nephew of Richard Gibson, the dwarf, from whom he received instruction. He was also a pupil of Sir Peter Lely, and was very successful in his copies of Lely's works. He attained great eminence as a miniature painter, and was largely employed by the nobility. At the sale of Lely's collection of prints and drawings by the old masters, Gibson bought a great number, and added considerably to them by subsequent purchases. He resided in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, and died of a "lethargy" in 1702, aged 58. He was buried at Richmond in Surrey.

See also

• Edward Gibson (painter)

Sources

• Walpole, Horace (1876). Anecdotes of Painting in England. Dallaway, James; Wornum, Ralph N. (eds.). Vol. 2. London: Chatto and Windus. p. 151.
• "Gibson, William (1644–1703)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10640. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• "Gibson, William". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. 2011. Retrieved 20 September 2022.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1890). "Gibson, William (1664-1702)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 288.