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Gill was born in Periton, Minehead, Somerset, England, in 1818. He was the son of the Reverend Samuel Gill, a Baptist minister, and his first wife, Winifred Oke. Rev. Gill became the headmaster of a school at Plymouth, where the son was first educated, then he continued to Dr Seabrook's Academy, Plymouth. Having moved to London, Gill appears to ...
Gill was employed in London as 'Draftsman and Water Colour Painter' by the Hubard Profile Gallery, an establishment which produced silhouettes. He reached South Australia in December 1839 in the Caroline with his parents and a brother and sister.
Prolific artist Samuel Thomas Gill (1818–1880) is represented in the Trevor Kennedy Collection with watercolour works showing the Victorian goldfields and the earliest known depiction of the interior of an Australian house.
8 de ago. de 2023 · Gill Collection. The son of an amateur artist, Samuel Thomas Gill (1818–1880) was born in Perriton in Somerset, England, and educated in Plymouth at a school kept by his parents and at Dr Seabrook’s academy. He was employed as a draftsman and painter by the Hubbard Profile Gallery in London.
The Australian Sketchbook is a collection of 24 works by artist Samuel Thomas Gill. The scenes include bushrangers, diggers heading for the goldfields, a bush funeral, kangaroo and emu hunting and a corroboree.
In 1847 the first exhibition of work by South Australian colonial artists was held and Gill showed sixty-two paintings and drawings; in the second in 1848, he exhibited ten. The following year Gill began producing lithographs and made a number of topical images including a series of drawings of prominent citizens entitled Heads of the People.
ST Gill may be the quintessential Australian colonial artist, known to anyone who has been educated in Australia and seen textbooks on Australian history full of Gill illustrations of the gold rushes.
