Charles Web Gilbert
Charles Marsh Webb (Nash) Gilbert (18 March 1867 – 3 October 1925), known professionally as C. Web Gilbert, was a self-taught Australian sculptor renowned both within Australia and abroad.
Gilbert was born at Cockatoo, a mining and farming hamlet north-east of Talbot, Victoria.
In May 1914, encouraged and helped by an American resident of Melbourne, Hugo Meyer, Gilbert went to London and in spite of the war persevered with his work as he was well over military age . He exhibited at the
His other war memorials include large and dramatic bronze sculptures of Australian soldiers in public streets in Broken Hill in New South Wales and the City of Burnside in South Australia, as well as those for the Melbourne University medical school and the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers. He created the miniature figures in the diorama "Mont St Quentin" held by the Australian War Memorial.[3] Another important work was the group of three figures for the Matthew Flinders memorial which stands outside St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne. His next important piece of work was the Australian Memorial for Port Said. Gilbert had always been accustomed to doing everything for himself, and wore himself out carrying clay for the huge full size model and died suddenly on 3 October 1925. He married Alice Rose Eugenia Daniell in 1887, they divorced in 1911. He married again while in London and left a widow, Mabel Annette Gilbert, née Woodstock, with three children, daughter Marj, and identical twin sons, Charlie and Jim.
Gilbert is buried at Coburg Cemetery, Preston, Victoria. His grave is included in a self-guided heritage walk at the cemetery and information about his life and death are available on a sign posted at his graveside.[4]
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References
- ^ "WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1867". Argus. 19 June 1867. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
- ^ "No title". The Herald (Melbourne). Vol. LXXVIII, no. 6703. Victoria, Australia. 17 June 1867. p. 2. Retrieved 24 June 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Storming of Mont St Quentin". AWM. Retrieved 13 June 2023. Cited reference includes a photograph of the diorama.
- ^ Friends of Coburg Cemetery website http://friendsofcoburgcemetery.com
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Gilbert, Charles Web". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
- G. Sturgeon (1983). Australian Dictionary of Biography: 'Gilbert, Charles Marsh Web (Nash) (1867–1925)'. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
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