Hamerton
PHILIP GILBERT, an English writer on art; born in Laneside, Lancashire, England, Sept. 10, 1834. He commenced his career as an art-critic by contributing to the "Fine Arts Quarterly," the "Fortnightly" and the "Saturday Review." He produced a volume of poems on "The Isles of Loch Awe" (1855), and "A Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts About Art" (1862). In 1868 he published "Etching and Etchers" and "Contemporary French Painters," and a continuation, "Painting in France After the Decline of Classicism." After 1869 he edited the "Portfolio," an art journal. Other publications are: "The Intellectual Life" (1873); "Human Intercourse" (1884); "The Graphic Arts" (1882); "Landscape" (1885); "Portfolio Papers" (1889); "French and English" (1889), and a couple of novels. He died Nov. 6, 1894.