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Person
Authorized form of name
Gibson, Thomas (1680-1751), artist
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- Thomas Gibson
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Description area
Dates of existence
c. 1680 -28 April 1751
History
An English portrait painter and copyist, notable as master of George Vertue. Gibson's sitters included a number of important public figures: Dr Henry Sacheverell (1710; Oxford, Magdalen Coll.), John Flamsteed (1712; Oxford, Bodleian Lib.), Sir Robert Walpole (untraced; engr. G. Bockman), Archbishop William Wake (Oxford, Christ Church Pict. Gal.) and Archbishop John Potter (London, Lambeth Pal.).