Gilbert Gaul's 'Return Home'

Gilbert Gaul was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1855. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York and worked as an illustrator for multiple newspapers including the New York Daily Graphic and the New York Herald. A young soldier returns to find his boyhood home and hearth in ruins. Oil painting by Gilbert Gaul in the Birmingham Museum of Art Later, he took formal art lessons…