Henry Gales (1834–1897) was an

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painter, most well known for his portrait of the 1867 Derby Cabinet.

Biography

Gales was born in

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, Norfolk, England to Daniel Gales and Mary Church (Daniel's first wife). After studying in the 1850s at the Norwich School of Design, he moved to London in the 1860s. In 1868, Gales painted ''The Derby Cabinet of 1867'', an oil painting on canvas depicting Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and his cabinet:

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; John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland; and Spencer Horatio Walpole. The portrait is said to have been painted to a design by John Gilbert. It depicts the cabinet in consultation upon the question of the

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. ''The Derby Cabinet of 1867'' is in the collection of the

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in London. Gales married Sarah Richmond of Tasmania in The Stand, London, in 1869. They had one child, Lilian, born in 1871 in

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. Lilian died at the age of three in

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, London. Gales and his wife divorced in 1896. Gales returned to Norfolk, exhibiting with the Norwich Art Circle during 1888 and 1889. His name also appears in ''Kelly's Directory'', which describes him as "private resident, artist of Acle Norfolk." In 1897, Henry Gales died in

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, Norfolk.

Works

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gales, Henry People from Broadland (district) 1834 births 1897 deaths 19th-century English painters English male painters Alumni of Norwich University of the Arts 19th-century English male artists