William Gale (painter)

William Gale (1823–1909) was a British painter of the pre-Raphaelite school.

Gale was born in London. He exhibited annually at the Royal Academy 1844–93, but was never elected a member. He exhibited regularly at the British Institution and at the Royal Society of British Artists. He travelled to Italy in 1851, and to the Middle East in 1862 and 1867. He was a prolific artist; his output included sentimental, biblical and mythological subjects, and portraits and orientalist pictures. There are examples of his work in the Tate Gallery, in the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, and in the Art Gallery of New South Wales.^[1]

His painting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem features in the sleeve notes of the 2011 album 90 Bisodol (Crimond) by the band Half Man Half Biscuit.

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