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Sir John Gilbert: Quick Facts

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Born July 21, 1817 • London • England
Died October 5, 1897 (aged 80) • London • England
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.
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Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
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John Gielgud
John Gielgud
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Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
British actor and manager
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom
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Mary Ann Lamb, detail of an oil painting by Francis Stephen Cary, 1834; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Mary Ann Lamb
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Ireland, William-Henry
William-Henry Ireland
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Tsubouchi Shōyō
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Ian Bannen
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Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
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Hamlet (1948)
Laurence Olivier
British actor, director, writer, and producer
Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall, wearing a black cap and dark fur-trimmed cloak, standing against a plain background.
Mark Rylance
British actor and director
Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard sits at a glass table with hands clasped, wearing a dark jacket with a silver badge, in a scene from Star Trek: Picard.
Patrick Stewart
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William Charles Macready
English actor
Peter Brook
Peter Brook
English producer-director
Anne Hathaway's house
Anne Hathaway
wife of Shakespeare
Harley Granville-Barker, detail of an oil painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche, 1930; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Harley Granville-Barker
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William Kempe
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