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Robert Gibbings (23 March 1889 – 19 January 1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a wood engraver and sculptor, and for his books on travel and natural history.〔Martin J. Andrews, ''The Life and Work of Robert Gibbings'' (Bicester, Primrose Hill Press, 2003), ISBN 1-901648-31-1.〕 Along with Noel Rooke he was one of the founder members of the Society of Wood Engravers in 1920,〔Joanna Selborne, 'The Society of Wood Engravers: the early years’ in ''Craft History 1'' (1988), published by Combined Arts.〕 and was a major influence in the revival of wood engraving in the twentieth century. ==His early life== Gibbings was born in Cork into a middle-class family. His father, the Reverend Edward Gibbings, was a Church of Ireland minister. His mother, Caroline, was the daughter of Robert Day, Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland and president of The Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. He grew up in the town of Kinsale where his father was the rector of St. Multose Church.〔 He studied medicine for three years at University College Cork before deciding to persuade his parents to allow him to take up art. He studied under the painter Harry Scully in Cork and later at the Slade School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design.〔 During the First World War he served in the Royal Munster Fusiliers and was wounded at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles, was invalided out and resumed his studies in London. In 1919 he married Moira Pennefather, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Edward Graham Pennefather from Tipperary, with whom he had four children, Patrick (1920), Brigid (1923) and Lawrence and Finnbar (1927).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Gibbings」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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