Hamerton, Philip

GILBERT, artist, was born at Manchester, England, on Sept. 10, 1834; after 1859 he resided chiefly at Autun, France. He achieved some fame as a landscape painter, which art he studied under Pettill, and in Paris (1855) under Wyld; but his canvases are not generally popular. He invented the "positive proce " " of etching, on which subject he wrote largely; founded The Portfolio, a review mainly devoted to etching, and contributed many art criticisms to leading journals and magazines. His published works include: Etching and Etchers; Thoughts about Art; The Intellectual Life; The Unknown River; Observations on Heraldry, . Died Nov. 6, 1894.