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British artist (1848-1920)
Andrew Carrick Gow
Self-portrait at the age of 35 (1883)
Born 15 or 18 June 1848London, England, UK
Died 1 February 1920(1920-02-01) (aged 71)London, England, UK
Nationality British Elected Member of the
Royal Academy , 1890
Andrew Carrick Gow
RA (15 or 18 June 1848 – 1 February 1920)
[1] was a British painter who painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits and genre.
Biography
Born in London in 1848, Gow studied at
Heatherley's School of Art .
He was a regular exhibitor at the
Royal Academy , and elsewhere from 1867 onwards, and in 1881, he was elected an
Associate of the Royal Academy , becoming a full
Royal Academician in 1891. The artist
Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a close friend.
In 1900, he visited Egypt and he used his sketches to compose a scene representing the death of the
Mahdi soon after the defeat of his troops by Colonel Wingate in 1898.
In later life, he became
Keeper of the Royal Academy and died there on 1 February 1920 at the age of 72. He was buried on the western side of
Highgate Cemetery .
Grave of Andrew Carrick Gow in
Highgate Cemetery
Gow's sister,
Mary Gow , was also an artist.
Paintings
Cromwell at Dunbar
Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament
The Relief of Leyden (1876 - Private Collection)
A War Dispatch at the Hotel de Ville (1878 - Walker Art Gallery(?),
Liverpool )
"No Surrender" (French soldiers in loft after
Ligny ) (1879 -
National Gallery of Victoria ,
Melbourne )
Montrose at
Kilsyth (1881 -
Old Town Hall, Bedford )
A
Jacobite Proclamation (1882 -
Art Gallery of New South Wales ,
Sydney )
Trophies of Victory (Soldiers of the Dutch States General examining trophies captured at
Battle of Nieuwpoort ) (1883)
Cromwell at
Dunbar (1886 -
Tate )
The Garrison Marching Out with the Honours of War:
Lille , A.D. 1708 (1887)
A Lost Cause: Flight of
James II after the
Battle of the Boyne (1888 -
Tate )
Requisitioned (French cavalry stopped at by grain mill)
A Search Party (French cuirassiers outside church, c. 1810) (1889 - Private Collection)
The Visit of
King Charles I to
Kingston upon Hull , 1642 (1889)
After
Waterloo (Retreating French soldiers followed by Napoleon on horseback) (1890)
The Duke in Spain (
Wellington and staff during the Peninsular campaign)(1893)
God Save
James II (1894)
On the Sands of
Boulogne , 1805 (
Napoleon and his staff) (1895 -
Oldham Art Gallery)
A Mountain Pass (French reconnoitering party in Spain) (1895 -
Royal Academy of Art )
The Emperor (
Napoleon on his white charger) (1896)
Waiting for Prince
Charlie (Group of horsemen on sands) (1897)
On the Way to Exile: The Arrival of the Emperor at Rochefort, 1815 (1897)
The Signal (Horsemen on a beach) (1898)
Queen Victoria at
St. Paul's Cathedral on Diamond Jubilee Day (
Guildhall Art Gallery )
The death of the
Khalifa
Washington 's Farewell to the Army (1902)
Farewell to
Nelson (1904 -
National Maritime Museum )
Royalist Prisoners (1913 - Parliamentarian soldier with Royalist woman and child)
Nelson Leaving Portsmouth, 18th May 1803 (1903 -
Royal Exchange, London )
References
Harrington, Peter. British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700–1914 . London: Greenhill, 1993.
External links
International National Artists Other