Benjamin Phelps Gibbon

He was educated at the Clergy Orphan School, and then was articled to Edward Scriven, the chalk-engraver.

[2][3] He worked with his younger brother, Henry Cousins (1809-1864), on numerous projects.

[4] Gibbon died at home in the cholera pandemic at Albany Street, Regent's Park, London, on 28 July 1851, in his forty-ninth year.

[2] Gibbon's portraits include a half-length portrait of Queen Victoria, after William Fowler (1796–1880), engraved in 1840; and a head of his master, Edward Scriven, after Andrew Morton, engraved for John Pye's Patronage of British Art, 1845.

He left unfinished a plate from Thomas Webster's picture of The Boy with many Friends, which was completed by P.