Antique-England Signed ALFRED GILBERT Oil Painting RARE STUNNING! PAINTING WITH CERTIFICATE A.GILBERT 1854-1934 Start Price USD 3,699.99 Current Price USD 3,699.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price USD 4,874.99 Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, July 08, 2008 End Time Friday, July 18, 2008 Location SUNNY SOUTH FLORIDA See more about 'Antique-England Signed ALFRED GILBERT Oil Painting RARE' Description Antique-England Signed ALFRED GILBERT Oil Painting RARE A sensational !!!! STUNNING Circa 1890 very large SIGNED oil painted by famous British painter & sculptor *ALFRED GILBERT* (1854-1934) of a family playing.ALFRED GILBERT is a extremelly well known artist,you can find additional information if you search for this artist in the internet.Please find below the Biography for this artist.The painting comes with a certificate of  assessment of style & value by *Dr. Roberto J. Cayuso*,Dr. Cayuso is extremelly well respected in the art world,he had wrote many books about art  also directed films about art, the most recent  film produced by Dr. Cayuso (in spanish) about Cuba famous painters,by the title**Doscientos años de Artes Plásticas en Cuba ** .***WE ALSO JUST RECIEVED APPRAISAL & CONFIRMATION ABOUTH THE AUTHENTICITY OF THIS PAINTING BY ONE OF EBAY RECOMENDED APPRAISAL COMPANIES Whatsitworthtoyou.com***. The frame that holds the painting is gorgeous!!! hand carved wood original to the painting with gold leaf finish & details. The frame is in great! condition for it's age .The canvas had been professionally re-installed to preserve it's beauty & condition for many more years!!!.THIS PIECE IS A CONSIGMENT PIECE FROM A PALM BEACH FLORIDA ESTATE** OIL PAINTING MEASURES  39-1/2" WIDE X 27-1/2" TALL (FRAMED) . ASK ALL QUESTIONS BEFORE BIDDING,WE WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ALL YOUR QUESTIONS.WE PROVIDE A LOT OF PICTURES OF THE ITEM FOR YOUR INSPECTION.(***BUYERS TO PAID SHIPPING,H. & INSURANCE*** )**NO PAYPAL** ONLY CHECK OR MONEY ORDERS IN THE UNITED STATES,**FOR INTERNATIONAL SALES WE ONLY ACCEPT  BANK WIRE TRANSFER***WE FULLY INSURE ALL OUR PACKAGES SO ONCE IT LEAVES OUR HANDS WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLES FOR DAMAGES OCURRING DURING TRANSIT.*****ALL SALES ARE FINAL****** Alfred Gilbert, 1854-1934 Nationality: EnglishDate of Birth: 12 August 1854Place of Birth: LondonDate of Death: 4 November 1934Place of Death: Cromwell Nursing Home, Cromwell Road, Identity: Alfred Gilbert was a sculptor, medallist, goldsmith and draughtsman. His parents, Charlotte Cole and Alfred Gilbert, were musicians who lived at 13 Berners Street, London, where Alfred was born. On 3 January 1876 he married his first cousin, Alice Jane Gilbert (1847-1916), with whom he had eloped to Paris. They had five children but finally separated in 1904. After Alice's death, he married Stéphanie Quagehebeur, the widow of a Bruges compositor, on 1 March 1918; she and six of her children had lived with him since 1907. Life: Gilbert was the most famous sculptor of the late nineteenth century, creating such iconic images as the famous figure of Eros atop the Shaftesbury Memorial (1885-93, London, Piccadilly Circus). He entered the Royal Academy schools in 1873, and was also apprenticed to various sculptors. The most important of these was Sir Joseph Boehm, between 1874-75, who recommended he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. After two years in Paris, Gilbert moved to Italy in 1878, which had a radical influence on his work: he shook off the French academic style for an interest in the Florentine Renaissance and Mannerism. He also developed the cire-perdue or lost wax method for large works. The success of Icarus at the Royal Academy in 1884 (Cardiff, National Museum of Wales) led to his return to Britain in the winter of 1884-85 and subsequent critical and popular acclaim. He tempered the realism and careful modelling of the New Sculpture with a fantasy element, but although stylistically and technically adventurous, his large works were often more successful in their individual parts than in their total composition. In the 1890s he experimented with alloys and his casts took on the colour of Japanese bronzes. Other well-known works are: Jubilee Monument to Queen Victoria (1887–1912; Winchester, Great Hall), and the tomb of Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence (1892-99, with additions 1926-28, Albert Memorial Chapel, Windsor). Gilbert was a flamboyant character of the nineties, in his private life fond of socialising and extravagance, and a member of the Athenaeum and Garrick clubs. He was friends with Leighton, Watts and Burne-Jones and a consistent supporter of JW. In 1896 he began to train Teddie Godwin, JW's step-son, who later became a sculptor. Gilbert attended the Criterion dinner in 1889 and supported the purchase of Arrangement in Black, No. 2: Portrait of Mrs Louis Huth (YMSM 125) by Glasgow Corporation in 1891. In 1898 Gilbert was Chairman of the committee which grew into the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, of which JW was President. He later resigned due to personal disagreements, and only exhibited with the International Society once. He exhibited at the RA from 1882, and also at the Grosvenor Gallery, New Gallery, Paris Salon and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1889. Gilbert was made ARA in 1887, RA in 1892, was appointed to the Chair of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools in 1900. He also advised on the sculpture acquisitions at the South Kensington Museum. Despite Royal patronage and huge popularity, after years of bad management of his finances and late commissions, Gilbert was declared bankrupt in August 1901. He lived for the next twenty-five years in rather unproductive, self-imposed exile in Belgium, during which he destroyed many works. An exposure in the sensationalist newspaper Truth by a disappointed client, led him to the unprecedented step of resigning from the Royal Academy in 1908. At the end of his life he returned to London, and finally completed the tomb of the Duke of Clarence. He was given a two roomed studio in Kensington Palace Gardens, which had originally been designed for Princess Louise in 1878 by E.W. Godwin. Gilbert was knighted in 1932, the day after the tomb was unveiled, and the work itself demonstrates Sir Alfred Gilbert (more biography)British, 1854 - 1934 Born in London in 1854, Alfred Gilbert was the son of professional musicians who encouraged his artistic instincts. Denied a scholarship to pursue a surgical career, he studied at Thomas J. Heatherley's School of Art in London from 1872 to 1873, and at the Royal Academy Schools from 1873 to 1875. He won the Academy prize for the best model after the antique, but grew dissatisfied with the available training in sculpture. To gain technical knowledge he apprenticed himself to private sculptors, including William Gibbs Rogers (1792-1875) and Matthew Noble (1817-1876). The highly successful Hungarian-born sculptor Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834-1890) became his principal master and promoter. After three years, the older artist urged Gilbert to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Early in 1876 Gilbert eloped with his cousin Alice Gilbert to Paris. He became one of the first English sculptors trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where his teachers were Pierre-Jules Cavelier (1814-1894) and Fremiet. However, it was not until he produced The Kiss of Victory (model 1878), inspired by a description of Gustave Doré's Gloire, that Cavelier encouraged Gilbert to go to Rome and execute the sculpture in marble. While he and his family lived in Italy, from 1878 to 1885, Gilbert eagerly studied Renaissance bronze sculpture in Florence, Venice, and Padua. He produced his major bronzes Perseus Arming (1882; examples in private collection and Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum) and Icarus (1884; Cardiff, National Museum of Wales), the latter commissioned by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896). Fascinated with bronze technique, he supervised the casting of Perseus Arming by Sabatino de Angelis of Naples. Later in his career Gilbert became an ardent advocate of lost-wax casting for major sculpture in England, where previously its use had largely been limited to jewelry and small art objects. The warm reception for Perseus and Icarus, as well as the support of Boehm and Leighton, led Gilbert to return in 1885 to the success beckoning in England. Important commissions bolstered his reputation: the monument to Henry Fawcett in Westminster Abbey (1885-1887), introducing polychromy in its bronze statuettes of the Virtues; the imposing bronze statue of Queen Victoria enthroned for Windsor Castle (1887); and his best-known work, the memorial fountain to the philanthropist Earl of Shaftesbury, with its aluminum statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus (1886-1893). The latter project dragged him increasingly into debt as he struggled to support a sick wife and five children. Bronzes, portraits, commemorative statues, and goldsmith work filled his most productive years from 1885 to 1898. In 1892 came the commission for the tomb of the Duke of Clarence, son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Windsor. Its polychrome design called for bronze, brass with varicolored patinas, marble, ivory, and aluminum. Working in a rich ornamental style, Gilbert continually revised the complex, multi-figure project, deferring completion. Honors came, including the status of full Academician in 1892 and election as professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy in 1900, where he gave a series of spellbinding lectures on sculpture between 1901 and 1902. Living lavishly, Gilbert built a new house and studio at Maida Vale, north of London (completed in 1893), and continued to accept more commissions than he could finish. In 1899, deep in debt, he sold off the bronze and ivory saints produced for the Clarence tomb, replacing them with all-bronze casts. He declared bankruptcy in 1901 and moved his family to Bruges, smashing many of his plaster models before departure. Funerary monuments commissioned in Bruges led to stormy relationships with two patrons and further decline of Gilbert's reputation. Mors Janua Vitae (1905-1909) was cast for Eliza Macloghlin only after Gilbert surrendered the plaster under duress (plaster and wood model in Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery). Mrs. Frankau, whose husband's memorial the artist did not finish, took the claims of various disappointed clients to the press in 1906. Impoverished and disgraced, Gilbert resigned from the Royal Academy in 1908. He remained in Bruges until 1926, with an interlude in Rome between 1924 and 1925, working fitfully on projects full of personal symbolism, which he often destroyed. One surviving work from this period is the Wilson Chimney Piece (1908-1913, Leeds City Art Galleries). Gilbert's wife Alice, from whom he separated in 1905, died in 1915; in 1919 he married his Belgian housekeeper, Stephanie Quaghbeur. In 1926, after a campaign by Gilbert's biographer Isabel McAllister, George V called him back to England to finish the Clarence tomb, which he completed by 1928. A further royal commission was the memorial to the king's mother Queen Alexandra at Marlborough gate, London (1928-1932). With its installation came a knighthood and reinstatement in the Royal Academy. Gilbert died in London in 1934. A consummate goldsmith sculptor, Gilbert was deeply involved with the technical aspects of his craft. His gift for naturalistic modeling served a feverishly imaginative fin-de-siècle style, with Symbolist psychological overtones. Polychromy, varied materials, and Art Nouveau ornamental motifs enriched his creation. Favored themes were the passage from childhood to adulthood, the exalting power of mature love, and the terrors of troubled dreams. A mood of uneasy meditation pervades much of his work. He exercised a strong influence on the English bronze, producing statuettes conceived as significant works of art for private collectors in the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, neither massive monuments nor tiny bibelots. He took a leading role in the New Sculpture movement in England. [This is an edited version of the artist's biography published, or to be published, in the NGA Systematic Catalogue] ***DUE TO THE DELICATE NATURE OF THIS PIECE,BUYER WILL PAID FOR PROFESSIONAL PACKING,SHIPPING & INSURANCE*** ** A REMINDER TO OUR EUROPEAN FRIENDS THAT DUE TO THE EXTRAORDINARY!! 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