William Gale (painter)

William Gale
William Gale, Self portrait
Born	1823 London, England
Died	1909
Nationality	English
Education	Art Academy of Mr Sass, Bloomsbury, London; Royal Academy, London
Known for	Painter
Movement	Orientalist
Website	William Gale: Victorian Artist

William Gale (1823–1909) was an English Victorian painter, often of Orientalist subjects.

Gale was born in London. He exhibited annually at the Royal Academy 1844–93, but was never elected a member. He exhibited regularly at the British Institution and at the Royal Society of British Artists.^[1]

In 1851, he married and travelled to Italy for his honeymoon. Like many of his contemporary artists, he travelled to the Middle East, in 1862 and again in 1867. He was a prolific artist; his output included sentimental, biblical and mythological subjects, and portraits and Orientalist pictures. There are examples of his work in the Tate Gallery, in the Glasgow Museums, and in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.^[2]

His painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem features in the sleeve notes of the 2011 album 90 Bisodol (Crimond) by the band Half Man Half Biscuit.^{[citation needed]}

• Young Celadon and his Amelia, 1845
• Chaucer's Dream, 1850
• Cydippe, 1851
• The Captured Runaway, 1856 (John Scott Collection)
• Nazareth, (wood engraving), 1856
• Eastern Woman, 1856
• Eyes to the Blind, 1861
• After the Spanish, c. 1861
• Blind Bartemeus, 1865
• Nearing Home, 1866
• The Holy Family, 1866
• Interior, Algiers, 1867
• The Favourite, date unknown

• List of Orientalist artists
• List of artistic works with Orientalist influences

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