Capitolo 62
of the extension; and the relationship among them was mutual, for while John
Gibson found the sculpture, the Mr. Well it found the culture, so that Gibson
often used for calling him/it the "my classical dictionary." In 1847, however Mr.
Peak was taken sick. He found a bad cold, and it would not have doctor, takes anybody
medicine. "I consider the Mr. Well", his/her brother writes, "as one of the more anymore
agreeable of human beings--too much good person for this world--but he will take anybody
you take care of against colds, and when sick he is a stubborn animal." That summer
Gibson went again to England, and when he returned found the Mr. Well no
better. For four years the youngest brother lingered on, and in 1851 corpses
suddenly from the effects of a fall in to walk. Gibson had gone away this way
rather alone, but for his/her pupil Miss Hosmer that became to him more than
a daughter.
During his/her years Gibson greatly started later to dye his/her statues--
their colouring weakly with meat-tones and the other colors as nature; and
this practice him defended with all the strength of his single-prepared
nature. All the visitors to the great Exposure of 1862 will remember his
beautiful Venus dyed that it occupied the place of honour in a light
temple erected for the purpose from another separate artistic
Welsh, the Mr. Owen Jones that a lot of verse did raising him/it standard of
you taste in the people English.
In January, 1866, John Gibson had a hit of paralysis from that him
it never recovered. He died among the month, and you/he/she was buried in the English
cemetery in Rome. Both brothers of his witnessed dead him; and he went away the
whole of his/her considerable fortune to the Real academy in England. A
immense number of its jobs is in the possession of the academy, and
it is there on sight in the whole year.
The life of John Gibson is very different more in many respects from that of
other great men that work whose history is said in this volume. Undoubtedly,
he was deficient in very of those uneven and austere qualities to that