Ernest Gambart
Nationality: Belgian
Date of birth: 1814
Date of death: 1902
Category: print dealer
Date of birth: 1814
Date of death: 1902
Category: print dealer
Identity:
Ernest Gambart was a highly successful art dealer and print publisher, of Belgian origin
Life:
Gambart dominated the London art world of the mid-nineteenth century. He was a leading figure in the market for reproductive prints of works by contemporary artists, notably William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais.
Bibliography:
Maas, Jeremy, Gambart: Prince of the Victorian art World, London, 1975; Maas, Jeremy, 'Gambart, (Jean Joseph) Ernest (Théodore),' Grove Art Online, Oxford University Press, http://www.groveart.com (accessed May 2004).
