John Gibson (sculptor)

John Gibson ( born June 19, 1790 in Gyffin; † January 27, 1866 in Rome ) was an English sculptor.

John Gibson was nine years old to Liverpool, was freed by supporting the historian William Roscoe from the craft teaching and devoted himself to the study of anatomy and modeling, to his success it paved the way to London and as a result, organized by Roscoe subscription in 1817 to Rome.

Patron recommendation to Antonio Canova also gave him a place in his studio. After Canova's death, he went on to Thorvaldsen. Until his arrival in Rome he had worked only self-taught.

This showed his sleeping shepherd and the group started in 1819: Mars and Cupid ∞, owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth. But already his psyche, of Zephyren up wear (1821 ), and his Hylas, the Nymphs Surprised (1826 ), now in the National Gallery, London, showed the change.

From then on, his works reveal continuous clarification and increasing age, although the too- close connection to the antiquity of originality did demolition and often drew upon him the charge of imitation.

Nymphs, Cupid, Psyche, Paris and similar forms of youthful beauty bothered him preferably until he was induced to some porträtstatuarischen work, so to the two statues Huskissons in Liverpool and the statue of the Queen at Buckingham Palace, which later became the group for the Westminster Palace followed: the Queen, the allegorical figures of wisdom and Justice introducing as well as the tomb of the Duchess of Leicester to Longford are the ideal forms, such as in particular the Venus with the turtle 's feet, which he himself considered his most accomplished work. At this statue he sought the Greek polychromy, as he thought the same conduct ( the meat ivory, pale blue eyes, blond hair, the golden hair net ). After 48 - year stay in Rome, he died there on 27 January 1866.

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