Philip Gilbert Hamerton

English artist, art critic and author (1834-1894).

Born September 10th, 1834 in Shaw and Crompton.

Died November 4th, 1894 at 60 years old in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

Occupations
art critic, art historian, novelist, painter, poet, writer

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. Oscar Wilde