Dorment, Richard — Alfred Gilbert

New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Press, 1985. Softbound. Pictorial semi-gloss wraps, [x] 350pp, 201 BW illustrations. Alfred Gilbert, the great nineteenth-century English sculptor, was one of the most flamboyant personalities in the history of English art. His story is tragic; after achieving unimagined fame in his early thirties as the foremost sculptor of his generation, he fell spectacularly into bankruptcy and scandal, and spent twenty-five years in self-imposed exile. VG .