Horace Walter Gilbert (1855-1928) was an English landscape painter during the

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, and a member of the

Williams family of painters The Williams family of painters, also known as the Barnes School, is a family of prominent 19th-century Victorian landscape artists known for their paintings of the British countryside, coasts and mountains. They are represented by the artist Edw ...

. He was born Horace Walter Gilbert-Williams on 6 April 1855 in the Kensington district of London, being the only child of the well-known Victorian landscape painter

Arthur Gilbert Arthur Gilbert (19 December 1819 – 21 April 1895) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. Biography Arthur Gilbert was born Arthur Gilbert Frederick Williams on 19 Decem ...

and Gilbert's second wife Sarah Ann Godfrey. He initially became a landscape painter, like his father, and his older step-sister

Kate Gilbert Kate Gilbert (1843-1916) was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters. Kate was born Kate Elizabeth Ellen Gilbert-Williams on 17 December 1843 in London, being the only child of the ...

, but ultimately he decided to pursue instead a career as a civil servant and university lecturer. Prior to this, he exhibited at the

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and at Suffolk Street. He painted mainly landscapes of the

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and of the low hills near his home in

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, with many of his paintings showing water and/or meadows in the foreground, fronting dense thickets of dark green trees, against a backdrop of cloudy skies. His use of dark greens contrast with the soft earth tones of stark mountain scapes that characterize much of the work of his father. He also painted several nice watercolors of his father's home at ''De Tillens'' in Limpsfield, Surrey. He retired to

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, where he died in 1928 in the Prescot registration district.

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