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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.
My focus is on S.T. Gill's 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. This is a little bit further on in time than the reference work S.T. Gill, the South Australian years 1839-1852 (Appleyard, Fargher, Radford, 1986) .
Samuel Thomas Gill was born in Somerset, England on 21 May 1818. His father was a Baptist Minister and amateur artist who gave Gill some instruction in drawing. He then commenced employment with the Hubard Profile Gallery in London as a draftsman and watercolour painter.
Samuel Thomas Gill Gill arrived in South Australia from England in December 1839. Within 4 months he had established a studio in Adelaide offering 'to produce portraits of human beings, horses and dogs, and to sketch houses'.
