Maurycy Gottlieb Gottlieb settled in Kraków and began working on his new major project. He died in the same year from health complications. Matejko attended his funeral and promised his father to look after his younger brother Marcin. Gottlieb won a gold medal at the Munich art competition for his painting, "Shylock and Jessica" (1876), portraying a scene from Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice". The painting was exhibited in Lviv in 1877, and in 1878 at "Zachęta" in Warsaw and widely acclaimed. Gottlieb based Jessica's face on that of Laura Rosenfeld, to whom he had proposed marriage. However, Laura rejected his proposal
John Gilbert (painter) exhibited at the various societies. In 1872 he was knighted. He became an RA in 1876, in the same year as Edward Poynter. The "Gilbert-Garret Competition for Sketching Clubs" was started in 1870 at St. Martins School of Art, and named after its first president, John Gilbert. Gilbert is buried at Brockley and Ladywell Cemeteries. Gilbert illustrated: Gilbert has nearly sixty oil paintings in British national collections. John Gilbert (painter) Sir John Gilbert (21 July 1817 – 5 October 1897) was an English artist, illustrator and engraver. Gilbert was born in Blackheath, Surrey, and taught himself to paint. His only