Isaac Alexander Gibbs

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Isaac Alexander Gibbs (born September 10, 1849 in London , † December 20, 1889 in Düsseldorf ) was a British painter who specialized in glass painting and the production of faience pictures.

Life

Gibbs, the youngest son of the glass painter Isaac Alexander Gibbs the Elder (1802–1851) and his wife Jane Eliza Brake (* 1807), brother of the glass painters Charles Alexander Gibbs (1825–1877) and Alexander Gibbs (1832–1886), appears in the 1860s to have worked in the glass painting workshop of his brother Alexander. In the 1870s, he and William Wallace Howard (* 1856, † after 1915), the son of a banker , founded the company IA Gibbs & Howard , which produced stained glass and faience. On May 5, 1873, he married Marylebone Susanna Sarah Minards (1849–1913) at Trinity Church, London . The couple had a son, who died as a child, and two daughters.

In 1885, at the age of 36, Gibbs began academic studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . In that year he went to Heinrich Lauenstein's elementary class , which he attended until 1886. In 1886 and 1887 Hugo Crola instructed him in the preparatory classes, and in 1886 Adolf Schill instructed him in the class for ornamentation and decoration . In 1887/1888 Peter Janssen the Elder taught him in the classics of antiquity and nature. The circumstances that led Gibbs to die in Düsseldorf in December 1889 are not known.

Gibbs' works include depictions of saints on painted tiles on the north wall inside All Saints Church, Margaret Street, London- Soho , in 1874/1875 , and the stained glass windows Christ the Good Shepherd in the south side of the south nave of the Church of St Catherine, Llanfaes , Anglesey .

literature

  • Joyce Little: Stained Glass Marks and Monograms . National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies, London 2002, p. 55.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sussex Parish Churches: Architects & Artists E – G , website in the sussexparishchurches.org portal , accessed on November 4, 2017
  2. ↑ Cf. nos. 4103–4108 in the finding aid 212.01.04 Student lists of the Düsseldorf Art Academy , website in the archive.nrw.de portal ( North Rhine-Westphalia State Archive )
  3. ↑ Bettina Baumgärtel , Sabine Schroyen, Lydia Immerheiser, Sabine Teichgröb: Directory of foreign artists. Nationality, residence and studies in Düsseldorf . In: Bettina Baumgärtel (Hrsg.): The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its international impact 1819–1918 . Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86568-702-9 , Volume 1, p. 431
  4. ↑ Michael Kerney: 'All Saints', Margaret Street: A Glazing History . In: Journal of Stained Glass , 25 (2001), pp. 27-52
  5. ↑ Tile-Gazetteer - Westminster , website in the tilesoc.org portal , accessed on November 4, 2017
  6. ^ IA Gibbs & Howard , website in the portal stainedglass.llgc.org , accessed on November 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Gibbs, Isaac Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British painter
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1849
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1889
Place of death Dusseldorf