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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/charles-web-gilbert-1164" aria-label="More by Charles Web Gilbert" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Charles Web Gilbert</a>
Critic
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1917
adults
Anderson, Stanley
artist, printmaker
arts and entertainment
body
head / face
individuals: male
man
named individuals
people
portraits
work and occupations
<p>Australian sculptor Charles Web Gilbert began his career as a pastry chef. Encouraged by his skill in making cake decorations, he began to study fine art. He lived in London from 1914-20. When he returned to Australia, he made a large number of memorials to the dead of the First World War. This work is a portrait bust of the printmaker Stanley Anderson (1884-1966). Anderson is known for etchings and engravings of London and its surrounding area, which show ordinary people going about their everyday lives.</p><p><i>Charles Web Gilbert was born in Cockatoo, Victoria in Australia in 1867. He died in Melbourne in 1925.</i></p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
sculpture marble
3 May 2004 – 30 August 2004
2004-08-30
3 May 2004
2004-05-03
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2004-05-03
Turbine Hall (heads)
Collection based display
The Critic
object: 406 × 254 × 248 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1917
<p>Australian <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sculpture" title="Glossary definition for 'Sculpture'"><span>sculptor</span></a> Charles Web Gilbert began his career as a pastry chef. Encouraged by his skill in making cake decorations, he began to study fine art. He lived in London from 1914-20. When he returned to Australia, he made a large number of memorials to the dead of the First World War. This work is a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> bust of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>printmaker</span></a> Stanley Anderson (1884-1966). Anderson is known for <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engravings</span></a> of London and its surrounding area, which show ordinary people going about their everyday lives.
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<br/><i>Charles Web Gilbert was born in Cockatoo, Victoria in Australia in 1867. He died in Melbourne in 1925.</i>
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<strong>Charles Web Gilbert</strong> 1869-1925
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/gilbert-the-critic-n03220" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N03220</span></a> <strong>The Critic</strong> 1916
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Inscribed 'C. Web. Gilbert | 1916' on l. side of base<br/>
White marble, 15 7/8 x 10 x 9 1/2 (40.5 x 25.5 x 23.5)<br/>
Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1917<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> RA, London, May-August 1917 (1617); <em>The Chantrey Collection</em>, RA, London, January-March 1949 (376)<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> <em>Art in Australia</em>, No.3, 1917, n.p.; Graeme Sturgeon, <em>The Development of Australian Sculpture 1788-1975</em> (London 1978), pl.46
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A <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Engraving'"><span>engraver</span></a> Stanley Anderson, CBE, RA, RE (1884-1966), who wrote: 'The head he clay-modelled during 1916 at his studio in Netherton Grove, Chelsea'. (Quoted in a letter from Sidney C. Hutchison, 9 May 1957).
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, p.285, reproduced p.285
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-10T00:00:00
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adults Anderson, Stanley artist, printmaker arts and entertainment body head / face individuals: male man named individuals people portraits work and occupations