James Mitchell Crowther Gibbon (c.1876–1939): A Portraitist Steeped in Family Legacy James Mitchell Crowther Gibbon, born circa 1876 in Sydney, Australia, was a prolific portrait artist whose work captured the essence of his family’s history and celebrated the beauty of Australian landscapes. Though overshadowed by his father, William Forbes Gibbon—a renowned landscape painter—Gibbon carved out a distinctive artistic path, focusing pr…