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The Barnes School (Part 3)

The Children: George Augustus Williams and Arthur Gilbert Frederick Williams George Augustus Williams The third son of Edward and Ann Williams was George Augustus Williams who was born in London on May 4th 1814. He was one of the more prolific landscape painters of the Williams family. Again, like his brothers, the only artistic tuition he received was from his father. His work is distinct…

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Photograph of Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert, about 1940.

Meant ‘for everyone’, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Collection comprises gold and silver, enamel miniatures, gold boxes and mosaics.

Sir Arthur Gilbert (1913 – 2001, knighted in 2001) donated the collection to Great Britain in 1996, stating that he and his first wife Rosalinde (1913 – 95) collected because they liked ‘beautiful things’. When he was knighted, Sir Arthur chose one piece for his newly-created armorial, an early seventeenth-century cup in the shape of a partridge, carefully set with feathers carved from mother-of-pearl.

The Collectors. Utterly interesting people:

Their Story

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Arthur Gilbert (1819 - 1895) - River Scene by Moonlight. 1879. Oil on canvas.

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Kate Gilbert (1843-1916), British landscape artist. Only daughter of the landscape artist Arthur Gilbert (1819-95). Lived in London, exhibited at the Suffolk Street Gallery.

Boating on the River [probably the Thames], undated, c.1890, oil on board (private collection via Belvoir Fine Art).

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Arthur GILBERT (1819-95), British painter of landscapes, especially moonlights. Exh. RA, etc. The son of the landscape painter Edward Gilbert (1781-1855). (1) Coastal moonlight, undated, oil on canvas (private collection, via Jubilee Galleries). (2) River Scene by Moonlight, undated, oil on canvas (Reading Museum and Town Hall). (3) The Rising Moon, undated, oil on canvas (private collection via Christies). (4) Night on the Coast Near Clovelly, N. Devon, 1874, oil on canvas (private collection via Christies). (5) Moonlight at Gitar Point, Tenby, Looking South, c.1872-4, oil on canvas (National Maritime Museum). (6) River Scene by Moonlight, 1879, oil on canvas (Reading Museum and Town Hall).

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