Andrew Carrick Gow

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.

Andrew Carrick Gow
Self-portrait at the age of 35 (1883)
Born15 or 18 June 1848
London, the United Kingdom
Died1 February 1920(1920-02-01) (aged 71)
London, the United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
ElectedMember of the Royal Academy, 1890

Born in London, 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, become 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. 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.

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

Paintings
Cromwell at Dunbar
Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament

References
  1. Rohrschneider, Christine. "Gow, Andrew Carrick". AKLONLINE. doi:10.1515/AKL_00080094 (inactive 15 January 2021). Retrieved 17 January 2019.CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2021 (link)
  • Harrington, Peter. British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700–1914. London: Greenhill, 1993.
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