Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902

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role

Dealer/Gallery

dates

1814-1902

city

London

other cities

Brussels, Belgium; Paris, France;

country

United Kingdom

sex

M

historical notes

Belgian-born English art publisher and dealer in London in the middle of the nineteenth century.

Gambart was the dominant art dealer in Britain from 1840 through his retirement from the trade in 1871. He originally went to England as a representative of the Parisian print publishers Goupil and ultimately set up his own business. He was best known to the United States public with his exhibition of a single painting, Rosa Bonheur's Le marché aux chevaux, which toured the country in 1857-1858 and for which admission was charged. Gambart married three times but had no children. After his retirement c. 1870, his business was carried on to some extent by his nephews, Charles Deschamps and Léon Lefevre, who with his partner Pilgeram, began the firm now known as Alex. Reid & Lefevre (retrieved 3/20/2008 from http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?550764).

decades
of activity

1830-1840
1840-1850
1850-1860
1860-1870

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03/22/2024 12:09:30

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The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Alexander Meyrick Broadley collection of autograph letters, ca. 1822-ca. 1902.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Clarkson Stanfield letters sent, 1834-1864.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Daniel Maclise drawings and letters, ca. 1855-1867.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	David Roberts correspondence, 1837-1864.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Jean Léon Gérôme letters, 1853-1904.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Joseph Gillott papers, ca. 1843-1890.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Rosa Bonheur letters and sketchbook, 1847-1899.	see details...
The Getty Research Institute Research Libraries, Archives and Special Collections	Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier Legal deposition, ca. 1880.	see details...
Online Edition of Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler University of Glasgow	Correspondence associated with: Gambart, Ernest, 1814-1902.	see details...