GILBERT, Sir Jonri, b. 1817, exhibited his first picture in 1836, which was a water color drawing of " The Arrest of Lord Hastings by the Protector Richard, Duke of Gloucester." In 1839, he first exhibited at the British institution, and since that date has sent many pictures there and to the royal academy. His best known oil pictures are: "Don Quixote giving Advice to Sancho Panza," followed by many other subjects from Cervantes; "The Education of Gil Blas;" a scene from "Tristram Shandy;" " Othello before the Senate;" " The Murder of Thomas Becket;" " The Plays of Shakes peare," a tableau in which the principal characters in each play are introduced; "Charge of Cavaliers at Naseby ;" " A Drawing-room at St. James's;" "A Regiment of Royalist Cavalry;" " Rubens and Teniers;" " The Studio of Rembrandt;" " Wol sey and Buckingham ;" "A Convocation of Clergy;" and "The Entry of Joan of Arc into Orleans " More.recently he has exhibited at the royal academy "The Field of the Cloth of Gold;" " Tewkesbury Abbey;" " Mrs. Gilbert and Don Quixote and Sancho
at the Castle of the Duke and Duchess;" " Crusaders and Richard II. Resigning the Crown to Bolingbroke;" " Cardinal Wolsey at Leicester Abbey;" and " Doge and Senators of Venice;" "Ready;" and " May-dew." He is familiarly known to the public as an illustrator of books, pictorial newspapers, and several weekly publications. He was for many years an artist contributor to the illustrated London News. Most of the best editions of the British classics have been illustrated by him, and he spent many years iu the illustrations of a rare edition of Shakespeare. In 1852, he was elected an associate, in 1853 a member, and in 1871 president of the society of painters in water colors, in whose gallery he has been a constant exhibitor. He has been knighted.