George Alexander Gilbert b. 1 January 1815

  • Artist ,
  • Artist (Printmaker)
Born in England in 1815 George Alexander Gilbert arrived in Australia with wife and her children, in 1841 and was known as a drawing teacher, publisher, librarian, bankrupt pastoralist, gold commissioner and mesmerist. Not particularly successful at any venture Gilbert's art work forms an important archive of colonial Victoria.

Citations

  • The New McCulloch’s Encyclopedia of Australian Art.

  • Kerr, Joan. Dictionary of Australian Artists, Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870. Oxford University Press, Australia

  • Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook

    http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-PlaNine.html

  • BOWMAN, Margaret, Cultured Colonists: George Alexander Gilbert and His Family, Settlers in Port Phillip, Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2014

  • George Alexander Gilbert

    https://vimeo.com/85232232

  • Creelman, A.E., ' lThe life of a dilettante: George Alexander Gilbert.manuscript, La Trobe Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 1979.

  • Margaret Bowman, 'Portrait of the Artist as a young Settler: George Alexander Gilbert’,

    https://www.latrobesociety.org.au/LaTrobeana/LaTrobeanaV12n3.pdf