John Gibb (painter)

Early in his life, Gibb had shown a natural aptitude for drawing and painting that was encouraged by his family.

Gibb settled in the village of Innellan, near Dunoon on the Firth of Clyde, briefly moving to Alnwick in Northumberland around 1865.

Gibb had returned to Innellan by 1868, the year he began exhibiting at the more progressive Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

[4][5] Gibb had purchased a block of land on the corner of Barbadoes and Worcester Streets, Christchurch and he built three houses on the site.

Gibb followed the academic practice of sketching the landscape and gathering information which was later worked up in the studio with intense attention to detail.