Patrick Gibson

[close] Patrick Gibson (c.1782 - 1829) was a Scottish landscape-painter and writer on art.

He was a native of Edinburgh, where received a classical education at the High School, Edinburgh, and at a private academy. Hed studied art under Alexander Nasmyth and in the Trustees' Academy, then taught by John Graham.

From 1805 Gibson lived in Lambeth, exhibiting at the Royal Academy in 1805, 1806, and 1807, and at the British Institution in 1811. In 1808 he was in Edinburgh, where he joined the Society of Associated Artists, to whose exhibitions he contributed till 1816, and he was represented in the modern exhibitions of the Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland in 1821 and 1822.

Gibson contributed a comprehensive article on "Design" to the Encyclopædia Edinensis; and articles on "Drawing", "Engraving", and "Miniature-painting" to the Edinburgh Encyclopædia. His View of the Progress and Present State of the Arts of Design in Britain, in the Edinburgh Annual Register for 1816, noticed minor Scottish painters. He was author under the pseudonym of "Roger Roundrobin, Esq.", of a Letter to the Managers and Directors of the Royal Institution, Edinburgh in 1826. A treatise on Perspective, written shortly before his death, was printed but not published.


In 1826 Gibson became a founder member of the Scottish Academy, to whose exhibitions he contributed (1827-9) landscape and architectural subjects, both Scottish and foreign. In 1824 he had been appointed professor of painting at Dollar Academy, and he died there on 23 August 1829.