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William Gillard (c. 1812 – 1897) was a British artist.
Born in
Joan M Richmond
Porphyrogenitus 2015. . * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gillard, William 1810s births 1897 deaths Artists from Bristol
William Gillard (c. 1812 – 1897) was a British artist.
Born in Bristol
Bristol () is a city, ceremonial county and unitary authority in England. Situated on the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. Bristol is the most populous city in ...
to a well-known family of stonemasons
Stonemasonry or stonecraft is the creation of buildings, structures, and sculpture using stone as the primary material. It is one of the oldest activities and professions in human history. Many of the long-lasting, ancient shelters, temples, mo ...
, William Gillard was apprenticed at 14 for six years to a Bristol carver and gilder, but at 18 he had already exhibited a painting in Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, a country he fell in love with and where he would spend long periods working as a painter and a modeller of ceramic figures.
His paintings cover a wide range of subjects, most of them on a fairly small canvas and executed either in water colours, or, predominantly, in oils: genre pictures, portraits, landscapes, and more increasingly in later life, still lifes and paintings of dogs, in which genre he became a specialist. In early years he liked to treat the same subject both as a painting and as a ceramic model. It is not yet known if he continued this practice, as only one later ceramic work has been traced, namely the piece cited by L Lewellyn Jewitt in The Ceramic Art of Great Britain : "Repentance, Faith and Resignation modelled by Mr. Gillard."
In 1876 he left Ireland for good, returning first to Liverpool
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, a city he had long connections with, then alternating between Chester
Chester is a cathedral city and the county town of Cheshire, England. It is located on the River Dee, close to the English–Welsh border. With a population of 79,645 in 2011,"2011 Census results: People and Population Profile: Chester Loca ...
and The Potteries
The Staffordshire Potteries is the industrial area encompassing the six towns Burslem, Fenton, Hanley, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall, which is now the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England. North Staffordshire became a centre of cera ...
. He died in Stoke-on-Trent
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in January 1897, having exhibited consistently in both Ireland (chiefly in Dublin
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) and in Birmingham
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for decades.
References
External links
* Nine Letters from an Artist The Families of William GillardJoan M Richmond
Porphyrogenitus 2015. . * {{DEFAULTSORT:Gillard, William 1810s births 1897 deaths Artists from Bristol