Henry Gales Explained

Henry Gales
Birth Date:1834
Birth Place:Acle, Norfolk, England
Death Date:1897
Nationality:English
Known For:Painting
Training:Norwich School of Design
Movement:Norwich School
Notable Works:The Derby Cabinet of 1867

Henry Gales (1834–1897)[1] [2] was an English painter, most well known for his portrait of the 1867 Derby Cabinet.

Biography

Gales was born in Acle, Norfolk, England to Daniel Gales and Mary Church (Daniel's first wife). After studying in the 1850s at the Norwich School of Design, he moved to London in the 1860s.

In 1868, Gales painted The Derby Cabinet of 1867, an oil painting on canvas depicting Prime Minister Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, and his cabinet: Benjamin Disraeli, Richard Temple-Grenville, 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos; Frederic Thesiger, 1st Baron Chelmsford; Henry Thomas Lowry-Corry; Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook; Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby; John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton; Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh; James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury; John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough; Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo; Charles Gordon-Lennox, 6th Duke of Richmond; John Manners, 7th Duke of Rutland; and Spencer Horatio Walpole. The portrait is said to have been painted to a design by John Gilbert. It depicts the cabinet in consultation upon the question of the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia. The Derby Cabinet of 1867 is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Gales married Sarah Richmond of Tasmania in The Stand, London, in 1869. They had one child, Lilian, born in 1871 in Westminster, London.[3] Lilian died at the age of three in Kensington, London.[4] Gales and his wife divorced in 1896.

Gales returned to Norfolk, exhibiting with the Norwich Art Circle during 1888 and 1889. His name also appears in Kelly's Directory, which describes him as "private resident, artist of Acle Norfolk."

In 1897, Henry Gales died in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.

Works

TitleYearNotes
View of Tintern Abbey1863Watercolor over pencil, heightened with bodycolor. Sold at auction by Sotheby's on 19 January 2005.
View of Bolton Abbey1863Sold at auction by Sotheby's on 19 January 2005.
The Derby Cabinet of 18671868Watercolour. Part of the Primary Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 4893).
Chepstowe Castle1875
Tintern Abbey1875
Princess Alice, daughter of Queen Victoria1878Held by the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.
The First Mayor, Aldermen and Clerk of the Borough of Eastbourne1883–84Held by the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.
G.A. Wallis, 1st Mayor of Eastbourne1886Full-length portrait. On display at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.
Alderman James Arthur Skinner, Mayor of Eastbourne1895–97Held by the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne.

Piscina and Remains of Consecration Cross, Lady Chapel, Upton Church
Panel of Roodscreen, representing S. Ambrose, Upton Church
Interior of Upton Church
unknownPublished in A History of Upton, Norfolk (1891).

Notes and References

  1. Web site: England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 . Ancestry . Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. . 31 December 2021.
  2. Web site: 1871 England Census . Ancestry . Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871 . 31 December 2021.
  3. Web site: 1871 England Census . Ancestry . Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - Census Returns of England and Wales, 1871. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO), 1871 . 31 December 2021.
  4. Web site: England & Wales, FreeBMD Death Index: 1837-1915 . Ancestry . Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data - General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Indexes. London, England: General Register Office. © Crown copyright. . 31 December 2021.