# William Gush

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**William Gush** (23 April 1813 – 28 February 1888) was an English portrait painter born near [London](/source/London).[1] He was the oldest child of Aaron and Elizabeth Gush. Already at the age of 11, in 1924 he became copyist at the [National Gallery in London](/source/National_Gallery_in_London).[2] He lived at 40 Camden Square, Camden, London between 1860 and 1864.[3] William Gush was married to Elizabeth Phillips Rollings. The couple had five children. He worked in [Canada](/source/Canada) too, where he stayed for several months in 1858. Altogether, 354 portraits are known.[4]

## Works

- [Charles Wesley](/source/Charles_Wesley)
- Sir John Harrison Yallop, late mayor of Norwich. (1833)
- Duke of Beaufort, in the uniform of the Gloucester Yeomanry Cavalry
- Frederick Aaron,
- Abraham and Susannah Riddiford.
- Lieutenant Colonel Townsend of the 14th Royal Light Dragoons
- Reverend James Henry Monk Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, painted for the Bishop’s College in Clifton exhibited in 1842
- the [Richard White, 1st Earl of Bantry](/source/Richard_White,_1st_Earl_of_Bantry) (1767–1851) exhibited in 1844.
- Mrs Mills.
- Lieutenant General Sir William Fenwick Williams of Kars, Bart., KCB is
- [Charles Frederick Allison](/source/Charles_Frederick_Allison), the founder of the University.
- Charles Allison’s wife and daughter
- Reverend Humphrey Pickard
- Reverend John Beecham, the first president of the Wesleyan Conference of Eastern British America
- John Curwen, a writer on music.
- Sir [John Eardley Inglis](/source/John_Eardley_Inglis)
- Mrs Philip Vanderbyl
- At Lessons
- and Blackberries
- The New Song (1874)

## References

1. Christopher Wood. *Dictionary of Victorian Painters*, Antique Collectors' Club, 1971, p. ???

1. [Sterling, Peter: William Gush, portrait painter (1813-1888)](https://www.lakeshoregenealogicalsociety.ca/stories/2016-mystery-ancestors/Sterling-Gush)

1. ["Camen New Town History Group"](http://www.camdennewtown.info). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060715064750/http://camdennewtown.info:80/) 2006-07-15 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2026-04-06.

1. [Sterling, Peter: William Gush, portrait painter (1813-1888)](https://www.lakeshoregenealogicalsociety.ca/stories/2016-mystery-ancestors/Sterling-Gush)

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