English painter
Henry Gibbs (1630/1–1713) was an English oil painter.[1][2]
Gibbs worked inCanterbury,Kent.[3] He painted "Aeneas and his Family Fleeing BurningTroy" in 1654, acquired by theTate Britain gallery, London, in 1994.[4] In 2025 it was announced that the picture would be given back to the descendants of Samuel Hartveld, from whose collection inAntwerp the Nazis looted it in 1940.[5] There are also works by Gibbs in theBeaney House of Art and Knowledge and theCanterbury Heritage Museum.[3] His paintings have been sold throughChristie's auction house.[6]
- ^Stephens, Richard (November 2011)."Gibbs, Henry (1630/1–1713)".The world of art in Britain: 1660–1735. UK:The University of York. Retrieved27 July 2014.
- ^2 artworks by or after Henry Gibbs at theArt UK site
- ^abWright, Christopher; Gordon, Catherine May; Smith, Mary Peskett, eds. (2006).British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland.Yale University Press. p. 362.ISBN 978-0300117301.
- ^Tate."Henry Gibbs: Aeneas and his Family Fleeing Burning Troy, 1654".Tate. UK:Tate Gallery. Retrieved27 July 2014.
- ^"Henry Gibbs painting looted by Nazis to be returned to Jewish art dealer’s family",The Guardian, 29 March 2025.
- ^"Henry Gibbs (1631–1713): Portrait of Thomas Oxenden of Maydeken, Barham, aged 9".British Pictures 1500–1850. UK:Christie's. Retrieved27 July 2014.
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