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Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880), painter, was born on 21 May 1818 at Perriton, near Minehead, Somerset, England, the son of Rev. Samuel Gill, Baptist minister, and his first wife, Winifred Oke. Gill was educated at Plymouth in a school kept by his parents, and later at Dr Seabrook's academy.
Samuel Thomas Gill, [1] also known by his signature S.T.G., was an English-born Australian artist. Early life. Gill was born in Periton, Minehead, Somerset, England, in 1818.
Samuel Thomas Gill was born on 21 st May 1818 at Perriton, Somerset, England, the son of Reverend Samuel Gill and his wife Winifred. In about 1833 he completed his formal education and began his art training, also taking up a position with a Plymouth carver and gilder of frames.
Samuel Thomas Gill, known as S.T. Gill, came to Australia with his family in 1839 at the age of 21, settling in South Australia. He became one of the best known artists of the gold rush era, depicting the daily lives of diggers on the gold fields.
Samuel Thomas Gill (1818 - 1880), colonial artist, with a focus on the South Australian years and covering his life and work from his arrival in South Australia at the end of 1839 up to his early time at the Victorian gold rush in 1852-53.
He was born in Somerset in England in 1818, where he received his early training in Devonport, Plymouth and London. The Gill family migrated to South Australia, when he was 21, arriving in the newly established colony just before Christmas in 1839.
Gill, Samuel Thomas (1818 - 1880) Gill was born in Somerset, England. He arrived in South Australia in 1839 where he set up a studio as a landscape and portrait artist. In 1846, he joined explorer John A. Horrocks on an expedition to the head of Spencer Gulf, painting watercolours along the way.
