GIBBON
,
BENJAMIN PHELPS
(
1802
-
1851
),
line-engraver
,
son of
Benjamin
Gibbon
,
vicar
of
Penally, Pembs.
, and
Jane
his wife, was b. in
1802
. He was educated at the
Clergy Orphan school
and learned
engraving
under
Edward
Scriven
and
J. H.
Robinson
. He engraved several works after
Edwin
Landseer
and among his engraved portraits is one of
queen
Victoria
after
William
Fowler
. A delicacy of touch distinguished his works, but they are not now much in demand.
Gibbon
d. in
London
28 July 1851
.
Bibliography:
-
Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
;
-
Slater
and
Maxwell-Barbour
,
Engravings and their value a guide for the
print collector
, 3rd edition, 1900
, 341.
Author:
Miss Megan Ellis, (1906-2001), Aberystwyth
