1680 – 1751

English painter and copyist. He was an established portrait painter by 1711, when he was appointed a founding director of Godfrey Kneller 's Academy in London; among his pupils there was George Vertue. Gibson's sitters included a number of important public figures: Dr Henry Sacheverell (1710; Oxford, Magdalen College), John Flamsteed (1712; Oxford, Bodleian Library), Sir Robert Walpole (untraced), Archbishop William Wake (Oxford, Christ Church Picture Gallery) and Archbishop John Potter (London, Lambeth Palace).Show more

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