In painting, both in oil and water colours, he takes rank as a first-rate colourist and executant. His colouring is quite as rich and fine, and his handling as brilliant in its frank conventionality, as his arrangement is picturesque, and his invention inexhaustible. — Illustrated London News (1852)
Works with images on this site
- Self-Portrait
- Fair St. George
- Ego et Rex Meus
- Richard II. resigning the Crown to Bolingbroke
- Convocation of Clergy
- Breaking up the Encampment.
- The Return of the Victors
- Crusaders on the March
- Don Quixote discoursing upon arms and letters to the company at the inn
- The Battle of the Standard. Northallerton
- A Girl with Fruit
- Lancelot du Lac
Works without images on this site
- Anne of Austria Showing the Young King to the Rioters — Fronde Riots
- The Education of Gil Blas
- Scene from ‘Tristram Shandy
- Othello Before the Senate
- The Murder of Thomas à Becket
- The Plays of Shakspeare (the principal characters grouped)
- Battle of Naseby
- A Drawingroom at St. James’s
- A Regiment of Royalist Cavalry
- Rubens and Teniers
- The Studio of Rembrandt
- Wolsey and Buckingham
- March of Troops — Baggage Waggons
- Rembrandt Painting a Portrait
Bibliography
“Sir John Gilbert, A.R.A.” Illustrated London News (16 March 1872): 237. Hathi Trust Digital Library version of a copy in the University of Michigan Library. Web. 11 December 2015.
“Sir John Gilbert R.A, P.R.W.S. A Memorial Sketch.” Magazine of Art 22 (1897-98): 53-64. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 1 February 2015.
Created 1 February 2015; last modified 11 December 2015