Joseph Gibbs was a portrait painter who worked in the area around Smethwick, then South Staffordshire (now part of the

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), England, during the period 1852 to 1907. He exhibited at some

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a ...

events. Six of his works (five portraits and a pastoral scene showing two children crossing a river) are in the collection of

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: * Mary Ann Richards (painted 1891) * Muriel Dorothy Windle (1898) * Sir

James Timmins Chance Sir James Timmins Chance, 1st Baronet (22 March 1814 – 6 January 1902''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Chance, James Timmins, first baronet'', by Charles Welch), was an English industrialist, philanthropist, director of the London ...

(1902) * Alderman George Bowden, Mayor of Smethwick (1904) * ''Stepping Stones (The Nearest Way Home)'' (1907) * Frederick Talbot, Headmaster of Chance's School, Smethwick

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibbs, Joseph English portrait painters 19th-century births 20th-century deaths Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown People from Smethwick