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Joseph Gibbs (1699, Dedham, Essex – 12 December 1788), was an English composer.
Joseph Gibbs was not a prolific composer, but he was a not entirely unknown. He was born in Dedham, Essex in 1699, though not much more has been traced of Gibbs until 1748. In that year, he was appointed organist at the Church of St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, and his first published work Eight solos for violin with a thorough bass, also appeared.
Only one other work (six quartettos) is known to have been published in the remaining forty years of his active musical life.
The purchase of a Gainsborough in 1928 by the National Portrait Gallery created a renewed interest in Joseph Gibbs. This painting of Gibbs was hitherto unknown and handed down through generations of Gibbs’s family who were the only ones aware of its existence. Ipswich had a lively Music Club in which Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was a keen and passionate member. It is during this period that Gainsborough painted a portrait of his friend Joseph Gibbs. In the background of this portrait are two volumes. One is titled Corelli and the other… Gem…presumably Geminiani. Acknowledgement of these names in a portrait speaks profoundly of the sitters projections towards the violin. At Christchurch Mansion is another painting attributed to Gainsborough. This is on the case of the grandfather clock, assumedly of the convivial Music Club, amongst whom one can recognize Joseph Gibbs in sober grey, seated at a table with a glass in front of him. The Music Club met in the home of a Mr. Sparrowe, which is now known as the Ancient House in the Buttermarket.
Joseph Arthur Gibbs (25 November 1867 – 13 May 1899) was an English cricketer who made ten first-class appearances between 1891 and 1896. He played five first-class matches for Somerset, and also appeared for the MCC and I Zingari. He also published a number of books, including A Cotswold Village; or, country life and pursuits in Gloucestershire and The Improvement of Cricket Grounds on economical principles.
Gibbs was educated at Eton College, and then Christ Church, Oxford. He spent two years with the family banking firm in London before moving to Ablington, near Cirencester in 1892, where he lived as the squire of a small estate at Ablington Manor. He died of sudden heart failure in 1899, aged only 31.
While at Oxford, Gibbs played in a one-day, single innings match against Eton College, opening the batting and scoring 10 runs, and then claiming two wickets as Eton beat them by seven wickets. The next summer he played two matches for Somerset, during their successful 1890 season. During these matches, he averaged 25 while batting in the lower order. His first-class debut came in the following season, after Somerset's readmission to the first-class game. Playing against Lancashire at the County Ground, Taunton, Gibbs made six in both innings during a nine wicket defeat. That was his only first-class appearance of the season, his next coming eleven months later, playing for H Hewett's XII against Cambridge University. He followed this up with two matches for I Zingari in Ireland, and a further two for the MCC at Lord's.
Joseph Gibbs was a portrait painter who worked in the area around Smethwick, then South Staffordshire (now part of the West Midlands county), England, during the period 1852-1907.
He exhibited at some Royal Birmingham Society of Artists events.
Six of his works (five portraits and a pastoral scene showing two children crossing a river) are in the collection of Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery:
Again a lesser (or unknown) English Baroque composer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Gibbs http://imslp.org/wiki/Adagio_in_C_major_(Gibbs,_Joseph) (edition by Grant Colburn) other works by the composer: http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Gibbs,_Joseph painting: Samuel SCOTT, The Building of Westminster Bridge ernst stolz clavichord
Joseph Gibbs est un compositeur britannique (1699-1788)
Healing
Love affair
Her beauty is so unique
Thank You Lord
Jesus is lord
I thank God
Joseph Gibbs (1699, Dedham, Essex – 12 December 1788), was an English composer.
Joseph Gibbs was not a prolific composer, but he was a not entirely unknown. He was born in Dedham, Essex in 1699, though not much more has been traced of Gibbs until 1748. In that year, he was appointed organist at the Church of St. Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, and his first published work Eight solos for violin with a thorough bass, also appeared.
Only one other work (six quartettos) is known to have been published in the remaining forty years of his active musical life.
The purchase of a Gainsborough in 1928 by the National Portrait Gallery created a renewed interest in Joseph Gibbs. This painting of Gibbs was hitherto unknown and handed down through generations of Gibbs’s family who were the only ones aware of its existence. Ipswich had a lively Music Club in which Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788) was a keen and passionate member. It is during this period that Gainsborough painted a portrait of his friend Joseph Gibbs. In the background of this portrait are two volumes. One is titled Corelli and the other… Gem…presumably Geminiani. Acknowledgement of these names in a portrait speaks profoundly of the sitters projections towards the violin. At Christchurch Mansion is another painting attributed to Gainsborough. This is on the case of the grandfather clock, assumedly of the convivial Music Club, amongst whom one can recognize Joseph Gibbs in sober grey, seated at a table with a glass in front of him. The Music Club met in the home of a Mr. Sparrowe, which is now known as the Ancient House in the Buttermarket.