Hur Gilbert was an English landscape painter during the Victorian era, and a member of the Williams family of painters.
Background
Hur Gilbert was born hur Gilbert Frederick Williams on 19 December 1819 at Newington Butts Road in Stoke Newington, London. He was the fourth son of the painter Edward Williams (1781–1855) and Ann Hildebrandt (c1780–1851), and a member of the Williams family of painters, who were related to such famous artists as James Ward, Resident Advisor and George Morland. His father was a well-known landscape artist, who taught him how to paint.
Otherwise he received no formal instruction.
He married Elizabeth Jane Williams, daughter of John Williams, on 23 January 1843 in Street Martin in the Fields.
Career
Their son Horace was born the following year. He moved to Redhill in 1873 and then to De Tillens in Limpsfield, Surrey. He died 21 April 1895 in Croydon, Surrey.
The Williams Family hur Gilbert was born into an artist family that is sometimes referred to as the Barnes School.
His father and five surviving brothers (listed below) were all noted Victorian landscape painters. He was one of three of the sons of Edward Williams who changed their last names to protect the identity of their art
Edward Williams (father) Edward Charles Williams Henry John Boddington George Augustus Williams Sidney Richard Percy Alfred Walter Williams hur Gilbert became known for painting moonlight and night scenes, as well as stark mountains landscapes, many of which were exhibited in London. He painted also two large pictures of Saint John the Baptist for the "atelier Jacques-Paul Migne" that are part of the triptych of the choir in the gothic church of Audresselles, sea-side village in France (Pas-de-Calais).