Andrew Carrick Gow

Andrew Carrick Gow
Self-portrait at the age of 35, 1883
Born	(1848-06-08)8 June 1848 London, the United Kingdom
Died	1 February 1920(1920-02-01) (aged 71) London, the United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Elected	Member of the Royal Academy, 1890

Andrew Carrick Gow RA (London 15 June 1848 – 1 February 1920 London) was a British painter who painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits and genre.

He studied at Heatherley's School of Art. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and elsewhere from 1867 onwards, and in 1880, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, become a full Royal Academician in 1890. 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 (1851–1929) was also an artist.

Paintings

• 
  Cromwell at Dunbar
• 
  Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament

• The Relief of Leydon (1876 - Private Collection)
• A War Disptche 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 - Bedford Town Hall?)
• 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 Chares I to Kingston-on-Hull, 1642 (1889)
• After Waterloo (Retreating French soldiers followed by Napoleon on horseback) (1890)
• The Duke in Spain (Wellington and stff during the Peninsular campaign)(1893)
• God Save James II (1894)
• On the Sands of Boulogne, 1805 (Napoleon and 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)

Works about

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