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Graham-Gilbert [Graham], John
(b Glasgow, April 1794; d Glasgow, 4 June 1866). Scottish painter and collector. The son of David Graham, a Glasgow merchant, he was a student at the Royal Academy Schools, London, from 1818 to 1821. He obtained both silver and gold medals there and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1820 to 1823, before going to Italy for two years. In 1827 he settled in Edinburgh as a portrait painter and became an Academician of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1830. He exhibited regularly at the Glasgow Dilettante Society and at the Royal Scottish Academy exhibitions in Edinburgh. Returning to Glasgow, in 1834 he married the niece of Andrew Gilbert of Yorkhill, near Glasgow. In 1838 Mrs Graham inherited her uncle’s estate, and Graham assumed the name of Graham-Gilbert; from then he lived and worked at Yorkhill. He no longer needed to paint to earn a living and had sufficient wealth to amass an extremely fine collection of Old Master paintings including works by Rubens and Rembrandt. Graham-Gilbert was interested in promoting local art in Glasgow: he became President of the West of Scotland Academy and helped to found the Glasgow Fine Arts Institute. In 1864 he failed by one vote to be elected President of the Royal Scottish Academy.
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