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.

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

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, becoming a full

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in 1891. The artist

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was a close friend. In 1900, he visited Egypt and he used his sketches to compose a scene representing the death of the

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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

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Grave of Andrew Carrick Gow in Highgate Cemetery

Gow's sister, Mary Gow, was also an artist.

Paintings

* ''The Relief of Leyden'' (1876 - Private Collection) * ''A War Dispatch at the Hotel de Ville'' (1878 - Walker Art Gallery(?),

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...

) * ''"No Surrender"'' (French soldiers in loft after

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) (1879 -

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) * '' Montrose at Kilsyth'' (1881 -

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) * ''A Jacobite Proclamation'' (1882 - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney) * ''Trophies of Victory'' (Soldiers of the Dutch States General examining trophies captured at

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) (1883) * ''

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'' (1886 -

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) * ''The Garrison Marching Out with the Honours of War:

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, A.D. 1708'' (1887) * ''A Lost Cause: Flight of James II after the

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'' (1888 -

) * ''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

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, 1642'' (1889) * ''After Waterloo'' (Retreating French soldiers followed by Napoleon on horseback) (1890) * ''The Duke in Spain'' (

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and staff during the Peninsular campaign)(1893) * ''God Save James II'' (1894) * ''On the Sands of Boulogne, 1805'' (

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and his staff) (1895 -

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Art Gallery) * ''A Mountain Pass'' (French reconnoitering party in Spain) (1895 -

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) * ''The Emperor'' (

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) * ''

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at St. Paul's Cathedral on Diamond Jubilee Day'' (

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) * ''The death of the

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'' * ''

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's Farewell to the Army'' (1902) * ''Farewell to

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'' (1904 -

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) * ''Royalist Prisoners'' (1913 - Parliamentarian soldier with Royalist woman and child) * ''Nelson Leaving Portsmouth, 18th May 1803'' (1903 -

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)

References

* Harrington, Peter. ''British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700–1914''. London: Greenhill, 1993.

External links

*
Profile on Royal Academy of Arts Collections
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