Edward Gibson (painter)

Self-portrait, 1690.

Edward Gibson (1668/9–1701) was an English portrait painter and draughtsman. He excelled in crayon work.

Life

Pendant: Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset and Elizabeth Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, c. 1710.

Edward Gibson was perhaps the son of Richard Gibson by his wife, Anne, née Sheppard. He was the nephew of William Gibson, from whom he received instruction in painting. He commenced painting portraits in oil, but subsequently found more employment in crayons. In this line he "showed some genius", says Lionel Cust, and was making "great progress" when he died in January 1701 in his thirty-third year. He resided in Catherine Street, Strand, and was buried at Richmond, Surrey.

Works

He drew his own portrait in crayons twice, in one dressed as a Chinese, in the other as a Quaker. One portrait of himself, dated 1690, was at Tart Hall, and another, dated 1696, was formerly in Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection, and was sold at Christie's on 27 March 1866.

Sources

• Cust, L. H.; Peach, Annette (2004). "Gibson, Edward (1668/9–1701), portrait draughtsman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10616. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Jeffares, Neil (9 July 2020). "Gibson, Edward" (PDF). Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800 (online ed.). Retrieved 21 September 2022.

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cust, Lionel Henry (1890). "Gibson, Edward". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 21. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 275–276.

Further reading

• Walpole, Horace (1876). Dallaway, James; Wornum, Ralph N. (eds.). Anecdotes of Painting in England. Vol. 2. London: Chatto and Windus. p. 151.
• Later Stuart Portraits Catalogue – Edward Gibson (1668-1701), Portrait draughtsman. National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 20 September 2022.
• "Gibson, Edward". Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Oxford Art Online. 2011. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00073546. Retrieved 20 September 2022.