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Classical Landscape, Patrick Gibson 1782-1829 #1150104

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Classical Landscape, Patrick Gibson 1782-1829 #1150104
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A Classical Landscape, By Patrick Gibson 1782-1829 Scottish</em></td>
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PATRICK GIBSON, an eminent artist and writer upon art, was born at Edinburgh, in November, 1782. He was the son of respectable parents, who gave him an excellent classical education, partly at the High School, and partly at a private academy. In his school-boy days, he manifested a decided taste for literature, accompanied by a talent for drawing figures, which induced his father to place him as an apprentice under Mr Nasmyth, the distinguished landscape-painter; who was, in this manner, the means of bringing forward many men of genius in the arts. Contemporay with Mr Gibson, as a student in this school, was Mr Nasmth?s son Peter; and it is painful to think, that both of these ingenious pupils should have gone down to the grave before their master. Mr Nasmyth?s academy was one in no ordinary degree advantageous to his apprentices: such talents as they possessed were generally brought into speedy use in painting and copying landscapes, which he himself finished and sold; and thus they received encouragement from seeing works, of which a part of the merit was their own, brought rapidly into the notice of the world. About the same time, Mr Gibson attended the trustees? academy, then taught with distinguished success by Mr Graham. While advancing in the practical part of his profession, Mr Gibson, from his taste for general study, paid a greater share of attention to the branches of knowledge connected with it, than the most of artists had it in their power to bestow. He studied the ...
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#: 2926</td>
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<tr><td>Condition:Good </td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:18th Century </td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:UK</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Patrick Gibson</td></tr>
<tr><td>Height:18</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:24</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Classical Landscape, Patrick Gibson 1782-1829</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Traditional </td></tr>

<tr><td>Type:Oil on Canvas</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:london uk</td></tr>
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