John Gibson

Inscriptionback to top

Inscribed in pencil (lower right): Henry Hoppner Meyer and (bottom centre): John Gibson R.A.

This portraitback to top

Presented at the same time as a drawing of David Roberts (NPG 1371). They are identical with two drawings in the British Museum (see L. Binyon, Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists, III, 1902, 105). Although apparently signed by Meyer, they cannot be by him. The portrait of Gibson represents him as an old man, and cannot possibly be earlier than 1855. Meyer died in 1847, and had ceased to exhibit by 1831.

Provenanceback to top

B. B. Brook, purchased from him, 1904.


This extended catalogue entry is from the out-of-print National Portrait Gallery collection catalogue: Richard Ormond, Early Victorian Portraits, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1973, and is as published then. For the most up-to-date details on individual Collection works, we recommend reading the information provided in the Search the Collection results on this website in parallel with this text.

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