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 Mold, where he died in 1782. "His landscapes are full of classical feeling and poetic sentiment; they possess noble qualities of colour and of delicate silvern tone; his handling is vigorous and easy, as of a painter who was a thorough master of his work." The classical feeling and poetic sentiment which Richard Wilson expressed in painting, his fellow-countryman, John Gibson, expressed in marble. John Gibson was the son of a Baptist local preacher who kept the chapel-house at Fforddlas, near Llansantffraid, Gian Conwy. His mother, Jane Roberts, was a woman of strong individuality. Gibson, like Wilson, was proud of his nationality. When a patron desired him to change his design for a figure of Pandora to suit his whim, he refused, saying:—"I am a Cymro, and as obstinate as a Cymro." His designs and sculpture showed fire and strong power of imagination. In monumental and portrait statues—necessarily represented in postures of dignity and repose—he was especially happy. He designed a monumental representation of Mr. Maddock's great victory over Neptune in the reclamation of the vast