I think, and evidently did not know what he had one Everything about him bespoke the utmost unconsciousness and democratic plainness of life." Biographies The letters between Gibson and Margaret Sandbach, granddaughter of William Roscoe, and a sketch of his life that lady induced him to write, furnish the chief materials for his biography. See his Life, edited by Lady Eastlake. John Gibson R.A. The World of the Master Sculptors is the first biography of Gibson in over a century. The book incorporates many illustrations and highlights Canova, Thorvaldsen, Spencer and Wyatt. . Published works Imitations of Drawings By Iohn Gibson R.A. Sculptor. Engraved By G. Wenzel And L. Prosseda Rome 1852 [London]: J. Hogarth 1852 Gibson provided almost all the illustrations for: Elizabeth Strutt The story of Psyche: with a classical enquiry into the significance and origin of the fable; by Elizabeth Strutt With Designs in Outline By John Gibson Esq. R.A. [London: s.n. 1852]. Material by him is incorporated in: Joseph Bonomi The proportions of the human figure, as handed down to us by Vitruvius, from the writings of the famous sculptors and painters of antiquity: to be which is added, the admirable method of measuring the figure, invented by John Gibson, sculptor; with description and illustrative outlines'' Third edition. London: Charles Robertson 1872; Gibson is not credited in the 1st and 2nd editions, London: Henry Renshaw 1856 [1855] and London: Chapman & Hall; H. G. Bohn 1857 References Sources Matthews, T. The biography of John Gibson, R.A., sculptor, Rome. 1911. John Gibson, designer: sculpture and reproductive media in the nineteenth century by Roberto C. Ferrari.2015 External links Bob Speel's site: Article on Gibson National Portrait Gallery: Portrait paintings and busts of Gibson Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg: Cupid the Shepherd http://gibson-trail.uk Virtual Exhibition 1790 births 1866 deaths 19th-century British sculptors 19th-century Welsh male artists Burials in the Protestant Cemetery, Rome People from Conwy Royal Academicians Welsh male sculptors Elgin Marbles