Andrew Carrick Gow
Andrew Carrick Gow (15 or 18 June 1848 – 1 February 1920) was a British painter who painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits and genre.
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Andrew Carrick Gow
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- Name
- Andrew Carrick Gow
- Born
- 15 or 18 June 1848
- Birthplace
- Islington, London, England
- Died
- 1 February 1920
- Place of death
- London, England
- Elected
- Member of the Royal Academy, 1890
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Education
- Heatherley School of Fine Art
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Andrew Carrick Gow (15 or 18 June 1848 – 1 February 1920) was a British painter who painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits and genre.
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Andrew Carrick Gow (1848–1920) was a painter, of British nationality. The painter was born and died in London.
Andrew Carrick Gow was educated at Heatherley School of Fine Art. The painter was a member of Royal Academy of Arts and worked in London.
The work spans portrait. Works are held at Auckland Art Gallery, Gallery Oldham and Guildhall Art Gallery, among others.
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Biography
Andrew Carrick Gow studied at Heatherley School of Fine Art. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Work by Andrew Carrick Gow is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Victoria, Auckland Art Gallery, Tate, National Gallery and Guildhall Art Gallery.
Andrew Carrick Gow (1848-1920) - A Musical Story by Chopin - N01529 - National Gallery
Andrew Carrick Gow · Art UK
Andrew Carrick Gow (1848-1920) - A Lost Cause, Flight of King James II after the Battle of the Boyne - N01530 - National Gallery
Andrew Carrick Gow · Art UK
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Andrew Carrick Gow • Born — 15 or 18 June 1848 • Birthplace — Islington, London, England • Died — 1 February 1920 • Place of death — London, England • Elected — Member of the Royal Academy, 1890
Biography
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. 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. Gow's sister, Mary Gow, was also an artist, and the artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a close friend. 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. • Illustration — Grave of Andrew Carrick Gow in Highgate Cemetery
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — News from the Front, 1878 • Illustration — A Musical Story by Chopin, 1879 • Illustration — Cromwell at Dunbar, 1886 • Illustration — A Lost Cause, 1888 • Illustration — Napoleon on the Sands at Boulogne, 1895 • Illustration — Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Service, 1899 • Illustration — Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament, 1907
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1848
Andrew Carrick Gow was born on 18 June 1848.
1920
Andrew Carrick Gow died on 1 February 1920.
Paintings
• 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)
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Andrew Carrick Gow is recorded as a citizen of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Recorded with the occupation painter. Classed in the genre portrait.
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