Joseph Gibbs was a portrait painter who worked in the area around Smethwick, then South Staffordshire (now part of the West Midlands county), England, during the period 1852 to 1907.^[1]

He exhibited at some Royal Birmingham Society of Artists events.^[1]

Six of his works (five portraits and a pastoral scene showing two children crossing a river) are in the collection of Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery:^[1][2]

• Mary Ann Richards (painted 1891)
• Muriel Dorothy Windle (1898)
• Sir James Timmins Chance (1902)
• Alderman George Bowden, Mayor of Smethwick (1904)
• Stepping Stones (The Nearest Way Home) (1907)
• Frederick Talbot, Headmaster of Chance's School, Smethwick