His father was a well-known landscape artist, who taught him how to paint; otherwise he received no formal instruction.
[1] Arthur Gilbert had addresses in Weybridge and Hammersmith, but spent most of his years at Lonsdale Terrace in Barnes, close to his father and brothers.
After Elizabeth's 1849 death from tuberculosis, he married his second wife Sarah Ann Godfrey (1830–1898) on 28 June 1854 St. Andrew Holburn, London.
Arthur Gilbert became known for painting moonlight and night scenes, as well as stark mountains landscapes, many of which were exhibited in London.
[3] He painted also two large pictures of Saint John the Baptist for the "atelier Jacques-Paul Migne" that are part of the triptych of the choir in the gothic church of Audresselles, sea-side village in France (Pas-de-Calais).