Andrew Carrick Gow

Coordinates: 56°00′00″N 2°30′50″W / 56.000°N 2.514°W / 56.000; -2.514

"Cromwell at Dunbar"

"Cromwell dissolving the Long Parliament"

Andrew Carrick Gow RA (1848–1920) was an English painter who painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits and genre. He was born in London on June 15, 1848 and 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. In later life, he became Keeper of the Royal Academy and died there on February 1, 1920 at the age of 72.

Gow's sister, Mary Gow (1851–1929) was also an artist.

Paintings

• 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. (1993). British Artists and War: The Face of Battle in Paintings and Prints, 1700-1914. London: Greenhill.