RA Collection: People and Organisations
Born: 21 July 1817 in London, England, United Kingdom
Died: 5 October 1897
Nationality: British
Elected ARA: 29 January 1872
Elected RA: 24 June 1876
Gender: Male
Preferred media: Painting and Illustration
Sir John Gilbert RA
Afternoon in February, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
Woods in Winter, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
Hymn to the Night, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Castle by the Sea, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Black Knight, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Skeleton in Armour, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Wreck of the Hesperus, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Elected Knight, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Slave singing at Midnight, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
Drinking Song, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
Autumn, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Open Window, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
Pegasus in Pound, 1856
Wood-engraving
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of heads, including Cardinal Wolsey, 1866 - 1868
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Drawings of heads for various compositions, Probably 1867
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A drawing for 'A Refreshing Draught', March 1867
Pencil, watercolour and wash on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of Rembrandt and Titian, 2/9/1866
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches and notes relating to prisoners being taken from the Tower of London to Westminster and back again, probably 1866
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with a drawing of a seated woman, 26th August 1868
Watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with a drawing of "Blackheath Hill before the spoilation", 1876
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with a drawing of Blackheath Fair, 11th October 1871
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with drawings of old houses at Lewisham and Greenwich, March 8th 1871 and November 9th 1874
Watercolour with pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with a compositional sketch and drawings of posters on the hoardings of a new hotel at Blackheath, c. 1871
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with drawings of old buildings in Lewisham and Blackheath, January 17th and February 1871
Pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with a drawing of the Prince and Princess of Wales going to a 'Drawing Room', 9th March 1870
Pen and ink with watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with studies of ecclesiastical vestments, 19th January 1870
Pen and ink and pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with a drawing of Holborn viaduct, London, 11th October 1869
Pen and ink with wash on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with a drawing of "Mr Bacon's Studio" and a preparatory sketch for 'A Convocation of Clergy', September 1869 and October 24th 1869
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with preparatory drawings for 'A Convocation of Clergy', 23rd August 1870
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A leaf from a sketchbook with drawings of armour from the Meyrick collection, 27th January 1869
Pen and ink on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Gloucester Cathedral, 6th September 1852
Pen and ink with watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Landscape near Gloucester
Watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Bodiam Castle, July 12th 1866
Watercolour over pencil on buff laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Landscape with trees at Bodiam Castle, July 12th 1866
Watercolour over pencil on pale green laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketch for 'A Roman Bagpiper' and the head of a bearded man, 1859
Pen and dark brown ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Duchess's Page delivers the letter, August 1864
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Miraculous Cure of Simcox
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sancho Panza, 1859
Pen and black ink over pencil on grey wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Petruchio going to be married
Pen and ink and watercolour on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of heads and figures, December 1865
Pen and ink on yellow wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Drawing for 'Bringing in the Yule Log. Windsor Castle'
Pen and black ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Crowley House, Greenwich, May 1855
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Vanbrugh Castle by night, December 1863
Pen and ink with wash and gouache on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Broomfields. Wilmington, 11th July 1860
Pen and black ink with watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Broomfields from the Orchard, 26th June 1858
Watercolour over pencil on buff wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Our House. Broomfields. Wilmington, between 1857 - 1867
Pen and black ink with wash over pencil on buff wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Farningham from the window of the Lion Inn, July 31st 1862
Pen and black ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Franks Hall, Farningham, Kent, July 31st 1862
Pen and black ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Destruction of the Trees in Greenwich Park during the high winds of 31st January & 1st February 1868, 1868
Pen and ink with watercolour on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Rembrandt painting a portrait, 1860
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Two drawings for 'Guy Fawkes before King James', 1868
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
House on Croome Hill, Greenwich, and Greenwich Park Gate, February and March 1865
Pen and brown ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Alms House at Lee, Kent and sketches for an illustration to The Merchant of Venice
Pen and ink with watercolour over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A Recollection of St. Bartholemew's Church, Smithfield, October 20th 1865
Pen and ink and wash over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Drawings for an illustration to Le Sage's Gil Blas, 1866
Watercolour and gouache over pencil on green wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A trumpeter, 1863
Pencil and scraping on beige wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketch for 'The Return of the Expedition', 1861
Watercolour and gouache on grey/green wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketch for 'Morning of the Battle of Agincourt', 1861
Watercolour and gouache on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Figure sketches for a Civil War subject, possibly 'Army on the March', 1862
Watercolour over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A Masque at the court of Henry VIII - sketched for the Illustrated London News, September 20th 1863
Pencil with brown wash on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Dying Talbot takes to his arms the dead body of his son, 1862
Watercolour with gouache and pen and ink on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Trumpeter, 1865
Watercolour and gouache over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sedillo and his housekeeper, for an illustration to Gil Blas, December 1867
Watercolour over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
First sketch for 'The Queen inspecting the Wounded Coldstream Guards', 1855
Pen with black and brown ink and wash on buff wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Standing woman, 1863
Black chalk over brown wash on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of Queen Victoria, 1887
Pen and ink on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches made in a Royal Academy Council meeting, 19 March 1878
Pen and ink on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Uncle Toby and Captain Trim, 1879
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Three heads, January 1878
Pencil and watercolour on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A procession at Antwerp, 1847
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on grey wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches for 'A Convocation of Clergy', by 1871
Pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Designs for additions to the artist's house at Broomfields, Wilmington
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A woman and child, June 3rd 1888
Pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Caricatures of two women
Pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Woman and child seated in an interior
Watercolour over pencil on light blue wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Standing female figure in medieval costume, August 1888
Pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Study for 'The Standard Bearer' (1897), by 1897
Watercolour on thick brown wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Head and shoulders of a young woman, for 'Don Quixote's Niece and Housekeeper', October 1883
Pen and ink with wash on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Fashion, June 1880, June 1880
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Portrait sketch of Sir Francis Grant in profile, July 1878
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The crush to see the Queen's Jubilee gifts, 16th September 1887
Pen and ink on blue wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Portrait sketch of William Makepeace Thackeray
Pencil on blue wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Landscape with figures, possibly for 'The Baggage Wagon', February 1st 1886
Pen and ink on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Study of a face, February 13th 1886
Pencil on cream laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of characters from Macbeth
Pen and ink on green wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketch for 'The Standard Bearer', July 1887
Pen and ink on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketch for 'The Standard Bearer', August 1887
Pencil on light grey wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketch for 'The Standard Bearer', August 1887
Pencil on off-white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sir Robert Peel, 1883
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Landscape sketch, June 1884
Pen and ink with wash on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Preparatory drawing for 'Crabbed Age and Youth...', 11th June 1879
Pen and ink over pencil on blue wove pencil
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketch of figures on horseback, September 10th 1879
Pen and ink on white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A scene on the Strand, London, 20th November 1873
Pen and ink on off-white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Design for ironwork, October 1864
Pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of hands, 1879
Pen and ink over pencil on grey wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Compositional sketch, probably for 'Joan of Arc at the Coronation of Charles VII'
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A horse and a figure lying on the ground, April 1881
Pen and ink on white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches and notes made at a Royal Academy Council meeting, 15 May 1877
Pen and ink on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
On the rail from London Bridge to Charing Cross, 6th October 1864
Pen and ink over pencil on laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Two drawings of a Scottish soldier
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Ellen, 6th September 1877
Watercolour wash over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Design for a magazine cover, June 1875
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Design for cover of the Illustrated London News, December 1877
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Head of a bald man, January 15th 1878
Pen and ink on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Detail from a battle scene, possibly 'Crusaders', 1875
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A Marriage Procession
Pencil on off white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Compositional sketch for a battle scene, Probably ca. 1875
Pencil on off white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Washerwomen drying Bath Towels on Hastings Beach
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of heads with notes, April 20th 1878
Pen and ink on pink wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of hands and imaginary faces drawn at a Royal Academy Council meeting, 17th July 1877
Pen and ink on pink wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches drawn at the Royal Academy Council meeting, 14 May 1878
Pen and ink on pink wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Trumpeter, 1859
Pencil and scraping on prepared brown wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Moses and the Brazen Serpent
Pen and ink over pencil with wash on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of heads and figures
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of heads and figures on horseback, 25th July 1880
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Greenwich Park seen from Maze Hill station, October 1878
Pen and ink on brown wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Drawing after a 17th century portrait
Pen and ink on white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Study of a skull, 24th March 1859
Pen and black ink with wash on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Study for 'Don Quixote and the Ladies of the Duchess', 19th August 1874
Pen and ink over pencil on blue wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Studies of faces, 7th June 1878
Pen and ink on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Compositional sketch, probably for 'Crusaders'
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Man's head in profile
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Scene from Orlando Furioso
Pencil on cream laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Two sketches of men on horseback, January 1874
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on buff wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Figure group for 'Francis I and Benvenuto Cellini', 4th January 1875
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on blue wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
'To all you Ladies now at Land', 5th June 1881
Pen and ink on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches for one of the series of 'The Fine Old English Gentleman', May 1863
Pen and ink over pencil on cream laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Cottages near to Well Hall, 4th July 1864
Pencil with pen and ink on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Well Hall, Eltham, 4th July 1864
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Well Hall, Eltham, 17th October 1863
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Houses next to Eltham Palace, 18th May 1864
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Eltham Palace, 18th May 1864
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Eltham Palace, 1st May 1865
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
End of a room in Old Burlington House, 29th January 1874
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Figures on horseback, 1874
Pen and ink over pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Preparatory drawings for a painting of Don Quixote, 16th July 1874
Pen and ink with watercolour washes on blue laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Preparatory drawings of Sancho Panza and Don Quixote, 16th July 1874
Pen and ink on blue wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Knight in armour on horseback, 1874
Pen and ink with watercolour and wash over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Cavalry riding through a landscape, 30th June 1875
Pen and ink on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Roundel inscribed 'Vienna Exhibition'
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on blue wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Flight of Standard Bearers pursued by the Police, 18th May 1874
Pen and ink on cream laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Smoking Room of the Garrick Club, at King Street, London, 18th October 1859
Pen and ink on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Coffee Room of the Garrick Club, at King Street, London, 20th June 1864
Pen and ink on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Smoking Room of the Garrick Club, at Garrick Street, London, 7th July 1869
Pen and ink on blue wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
One of the series "Fine Old English Gentleman"
Pen and ink over pencil on off-white laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Profile of a woman wearing a hat, 1870
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of faces in profile, January 1874
Pen and ink over pencil on white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Three studies of hands
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
A Wedding Party, Greenwich, 30th November 1874
Pen and ink over pencil on cream wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches for the 'Field of the Cloth of Gold', May 1873
Pen and ink over pencil on cream laid paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Drawings of heads for 'Field of the Cloth of Gold', June 1873
Pen and ink over pencil on off-white wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Sketches of Cardinal Wolsey and attendants for 'The Field of the Cloth of Gold', June 1873
Pen and ink with wash over pencil on cream wove paper (back of a printed page)
Sir John Gilbert RA
Two studies of a figure viewed from the back, June 1873
Pen and ink with wash on light brown wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Standing male figure viewed from the back, June 1873
Pen and ink and wash on off-white wove paper (leaf from a printed book)
Sir John Gilbert RA
Convocation of Clergy, 1870
Oil on canvas
Sir John Gilbert RA
A Hansom cab, 10th January 1856
Pen and ink on light grey wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Leaf from a sketchbook with a drawing of the interior of D. G. Rossetti's Dining Room, 20th February 1867
Pencil on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
The Hall at Batemans, East Sussex, 25th June 1867
Pencil and watercolour on wove paper
Sir John Gilbert RA
Batemans, East Sussex, 25th June 1867
Pen and ink over pencil on green wove paper
From: Joseph Parkin Mayall
Sir John Gilbert R.A., ca.1884
Photogravure
From: Elliott & Fry
John Gilbert, ca. 1876
Albumen print mounted on card with printed name
From: John & Charles Watkins
John Gilbert R.A., ca.1857-1876
Albumen print mounted on card with printed name
From: John & Charles Watkins
Sir John Gilbert R.A., ca.1857-1876
Albumen print mounted on card with printed name
From: John Watkins
John Gilbert, ca.1850-1880
Albumen print mounted on card with printed name
Samuel Carter Hall, editor
The Book of British Ballads - London: 1842-1844
12/632
Chronological Pictures Of English History. Designed & Drawn By John Gilbert. - London.: [ca. 1847?]
06/5969
Sir Walter Scott Bt.
Marmion : a tale of flodden field / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart ; with all his introductions and the editor's notes ; llustrated by eighty engravings on wood from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert - Edinburgh: 1855
07/4253
Sir Walter Scott Bt.
The lady of the lake / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. ; with all his introductions, various readings, and the editor's notes ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gilbert - Edinburgh: 1853
07/4251