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See also:- GILBERT
- GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
- GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
- GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
- GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
- GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
- GILBERT, J
- GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
- GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
- GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
- GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
- GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
- GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )
GILBERT, See also:JOHN (1810-1889) , See also:American actor, whose real name was See also:Gibbs, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, on the 27th of See also:February. 1810, and made his first See also:appearance there as Jaffier in See also:Venice Preserved. He soon found that his true vein was in See also:comedy, particularly in old-men parts. When in See also:London in 1847 he was well received both by See also:press and public, and played with See also:Macready. He was the leading actor at See also:Wallack's from 1861-1888. He died on the 17th of See also:June 1889.
See See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Winter's See also:Life of John Gilbert (New See also:York, 1890). GILBERT, See also:SIR JOHN (1817-1897), See also:English painter and illustrator, one of the eight See also:children of See also:George See also:Felix Gilbert, a member of a See also:Derbyshire See also:family, was born at See also:Blackheath on the 21st of See also:July 1817. He went to school there, and even in childhood displayed an extraordinary fondness for See also:drawing and See also:painting. Nevertheless, his See also:father's lack of means compelled him to accept employment for the boy in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of Messrs See also:Dickson & See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
Bell, See also:estate agents, in See also:Charlotte See also:Row, London. Yielding, however, to his natural See also:bent, his parents agreed that he should take up See also:art in his own way, which included but little See also:advice from others, his only teacher being See also:Haydon's See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil, George See also:Lance, the See also:fruit painter. This artist gave him brief instructions in the use of See also:colour. In 1836 Gilbert appeared in public for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. This was at the See also:gallery of the Society of See also:British Artists, where he sent drawings, the subjects of which were characteristic, being " The See also:Arrest of See also:Lord See also:Hastings," from See also:Shakespeare, and "See also:- ABBOT (from the Hebrew ab, a father, through the Syriac abba, Lat. abbas, gen. abbatis, O.E. abbad, fr. late Lat. form abbad-em changed in 13th century under influence of the Lat. form to abbat, used alternatively till the end of the 17th century; Ger. Ab
- ABBOT, EZRA (1819-1884)
- ABBOT, GEORGE (1603-1648)
- ABBOT, ROBERT (1588?–1662?)
- ABBOT, WILLIAM (1798-1843)
Abbot See also:Boniface," from The Monastery of See also:Scott. "Inez de See also:Castro " was in the same gallery in the next See also:year; it was the first of a See also:long See also:series of See also:works in the same See also:medium, representing similar themes, and was accompanied, from 1837, by a still greater number of works in oil which were exhibited at the British Institution. These included " See also:Don Quixote giving advice to Sancho Panza," 1841; " Brunette and Phillis," from The Spectator, 1844; " The See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King's See also:Artillery at See also:Marston See also:Moor," 186o; and " Don Quixote comes back for the last time to his See also:Home and Family," 1867. In that year the Institution was finally closed. Gilbert exhibited at the Royal See also:Academy from 1838, beginning with the " Portrait of a See also:Gentle-See also:man," and continuing, except between 1851 and 1867, till his See also:death to exhibit there many of his best and more ambitious works. These included such See also:capital instances as " See also:Holbein
she appeared with considerable success in See also:Germany, See also:Poland and See also:Russia. Thence she went'-to See also:Paris, and in 1847 appeared at See also:Munich, where she became the See also:mistress of the old king of See also:Bavaria, See also:Ludwig I.; she was naturalized, created comtesse de Landsfeld, and given an income of £2000 a year. She soon proved herself the real ruler of Bavaria, adopting a liberal and See also:anti-Jesuit policy. Her See also:political opponents proved, however, too strong for her, and in 1848 she was banished. In 1849 she came to See also:England, and in the same year was married to George Heald, a See also:young officer in the See also:Guards. Her See also:husband's See also:guardian instituted a See also:prosecution for See also:bigamy against her on the ground that her See also:divorce from See also:Captain See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James had not been made See also:absolute, and she fled with Heald to See also:Spain. In 1851 she appeared at the Broadway See also:theatre, New York, and in the following year at the See also:Walnut See also:Street theatre, See also:Philadelphia. In 1853 Heald was drowned at See also:Lisbon, and in the same year she married the proprietor of a See also:San Francisco newspaper, but did not live long with him. Subsequently she appeared in See also:Australia, but returned, in 1857, to See also:act in See also:America, and to lecture on gallantry. Her See also:health having broken down, she devoted the See also:rest of her life to visiting the outcasts of her own See also:sex in New York, where, stricken with See also:paralysis, she died on the 17th of See also:January 1861.
See E. B. D'See also:Auvergne, Lola Montez (Nev York, 1909).
End of Article: GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
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