Gill’s style, subsequently much imitated, was noted for the enlargement of his subjects’ heads, which sat upon undersized bodies. His caricatures, in the form of large hand-coloured, lithographic portraits, were considered very accurate and not very cruel. Thus, many of Gill’s famous contemporaries wished to be drawn by him. Gill drew portrait caricatures of Sarah Bernhardt, Otto von Bismarck, ƒmile Zola, Victor Hugo, Nadar, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Adelina Patti, Charles Dickens, and Richard Wagner.