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阿尔弗雷德·吉尔伯特的父母,夏洛特科尔和阿尔弗雷德·吉尔伯特是音乐家,他们住在13伯纳斯街,伦敦,阿尔弗雷德诞生了。他花了七年Aldenham学校赫特福德郡但是收到了他的艺术教育(美术学院,主要在巴黎朱尔斯Cavelier),并研究了罗马和弗洛伦斯的意义在哪里文艺复兴时期的在他身上留下了持久的印象和他的艺术。他还在爵士的工作室工作约瑟夫·波姆,R.A.

1876年1月3日他娶了表妹,爱丽丝简·吉尔伯特(1847 - 1916),与他私奔了巴黎。他们有五个孩子。1901年破产使他逃离英国,未来25年他定居在布鲁日。在1904年他的妻子离开了他。他们没有离婚,但是生活分离,爱丽丝被病人在精神病院。

爱丽丝去世后,他收到消息只有战争结束后,他于1919年3月1日结婚管家斯蒂芬妮Debourgh(布鲁日1863 - 1937),阿方斯的遗孀Quaghebeur(布鲁日,1863 - 1903年),一个温和的排字机;她先前lacemaker,六个七个孩子自1907年以来一直住在简陋的吉尔伯特,整个战争和德国占领。他住在地下,一大家子人的存在是一个很好的掩盖食品的数量需要在家庭。

吉尔伯特在1923年前往罗马,他的命运有所改善,和三年后能够回到英格兰完成“克拉伦斯纪念馆”,这一次皇家资助下研究的夫人海伦娜Gleichen解决。那一年他委托生产最后的主要工作,“皇后亚历山德拉的纪念”在1932年被释放。吉尔伯特对这项工作被封为爵士,而且再次当选为RA,所以晚年看到完全康复在英国艺术的最高阶层社会,之前在80年去世,享年80岁。

工作

他的第一个工作的重要性是迷人的母亲和孩子,然后胜利之吻,紧随其后的是珀尔修斯武装(1883),产生了直接的影响下佛罗伦萨的杰作,他的研究。它的成功是伟大的雷顿勋爵立即委托伊卡洛斯,展出皇家艺术学院1884年,随着一个了不起的研究,并与一般的掌声。随后魔法椅,以及许多其他作品视为艺术家不完整或不值得他的权力,最终打破了雕塑家的手。

在1888年的雕像维多利亚女王,建立在温彻斯特,其主要设计和装饰的细节产生的最引人注目的工作在英国,也许它可以添加其他任何国家在现代。吉尔伯特在1892 - 1893年占领了沙夫茨伯里纪念喷泉,皮卡迪利广场、伦敦、创意和美丽的代表安忒洛斯。其他的雕像是设置主Reay在孟买,和约翰•霍华德在贝德福德(1898)。吉尔伯特上升到他的权力的高度克拉伦斯公爵和纪念碑阿瑟·罗素勋爵和一个纪念字体第四的儿子侯爵的浴.

除了工作已经提到他的半身像西里尔花,约翰·r·克莱顿(自分解的艺术家,他的大部分的命运令人钦佩的工作),g·f·瓦茨先生,亨利·泰特先生,乔治Birdwood先生,理查德•欧文先生,乔治·格罗夫和各种各样的人。他设计的雕像大卫·戴维斯Llandinam的前面巴里码头办公室。

吉尔伯特被选中的皇家艺术学院,1887年,1892年正式成员(1909年辞职),教授,1900年雕塑(后来辞职了)。他是一个成员国际社会的雕塑家、画家和Gravers被.^[1]在1889年,他赢得了大奖赛巴黎国际展览。他创建了一个成员皇家维多利亚勋章在1897年。而吉尔伯特雕塑著称,他也定期油画。

Life

Alfred Gilbert's parents, Charlotte Cole and Alfred Gilbert, were musicians who lived at 13 Berners Street, London, where Alfred was born. He spent seven years at Aldenham School in Hertfordshire but received his artistic education mainly in Paris (Ecole des Beaux-Arts, underJules Cavelier), and studied in Rome and Florence where the significance of the Renaissance made a lasting impression upon him and his art. He also worked in the studio of Sir Joseph Boehm, R.A.

On 3 January 1876 he married a first cousin, Alice Jane Gilbert (1847–1916), with whom he had eloped to Paris. They had five children. Bankruptcy made him flee from Britain in 1901 and for the next 25 years he settled in Bruges. His wife left him in 1904. They never divorced, but lived separated, Alice being a patient in a mental hospital.

After Alice's death, of which he received news only after the war, he married on 1 March 1919 his housekeeper Stéphanie Debourgh (Bruges1863–1937), the widow of Alphonse Quaghebeur (Bruges 1863–1903), a modest typesetter; she, previously a lacemaker, and six of her seven children had lived with Gilbert since 1907 and throughout the War and the German occupation. As he was living underground, the presence of a large family was a good cover for the quantity of food needed in the household.

Gilbert traveled to Rome in 1923, where his fortunes improved, and three years later was able to return to England to complete the "Clarence Memorial", this time under the royal patronage and settled in the study of Lady Helena Gleichen. In that year he was commissioned to produce a final major work, the "Queen Alexandra Memorial" which was released in 1932. Gilbert was knighted for this work and was reelected to the RA, so his later years saw their full rehabilitation in the highest echelons of British artistic society, before his death at age 80 in 1934.

Work

His first work of importance was the charming group of the Mother and Child, then The Kiss of Victory, followed by Perseus Arming (1883), produced directly under the influence of the Florentine masterpieces he had studied. Its success was great, and Lord Leighton forthwith commissioned Icarus, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1884, along with a remarkable Study of a Head, and was received with general applause. Then followed The Enchanted Chair, which, along with many other works deemed by the artist incomplete or unworthy of his powers, was ultimately broken by the sculptors own hand.

In 1888 was produced the statue of Queen Victoria, set up at Winchester, in its main design and in the details of its ornamentation the most remarkable work of its kind produced in Great Britain, and perhaps, it may be added, in any other country in modern times. In 1892–1893 Gilbert was occupied with the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, in Piccadilly Circus, London, a work of great originality and beauty representing Anteros. Other statues are those set up to Lord Reay in Bombay, and John Howard at Bedford (1898). Gilbert rose to the full height of his powers in his memorials to the Duke of Clarence and to Lord Arthur Russell and a memorial font to the son of the 4th Marquess of Bath.

In addition to the work already cited he produced busts of Cyril Flower, John R. Clayton (since broken up by the artist, the fate of much of his admirable work), G. F. Watts, Sir Henry Tate, Sir George Birdwood, Sir Richard Owen, Sir George Grove and various others. He designed the statue of David Davies of Llandinam in front of the Barry Docks Offices.

Gilbert was chosen associate of the Royal Academy in 1887, full member in 1892 (resigned 1909), and professor of sculpture (afterwards resigned) in 1900. He was a member of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers.^[1] In 1889 he won the Grand Prix at theParis International Exhibition. He was created a Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1897. While Gilbert was known for his sculpture, he also periodically made oil paintings.