Charles Gore (artist)

Charles Gore
Gore by Ludwig Guttenbrunn
Born	5 December 1729 Horkstow, Lincolnshire
Died	23 January 1807 Weimar
Nationality	British
Education	Westminster School
Children	his daughter Elizabeth Gore married Rev. Henry Wood D.D (Cambridge), son of Francis Wood JP. of Monk Bretton, Yorkshire, and brother of Sir Francis Wood and of Sir Charles Wood.

Charles Gore (5 December 1729 – 23 January 1807) was a British artist. He married well and travelled throughout Europe and knew royalty, Goethe and Johann Zoffany.

Life

Gore was born in Horkstow Hall in Horkstow in North Lincolnshire in 1807.

He attended Westminster School before working with his father's brother in a London trading company. In 1751 he married Mary (born Cockerill), whose wealth meant that Gore did not need to work again. After his father died he moved with his family in 1759 to Southampton, where he spent many days creating watercolours of naval scenes at the Portsmouth shipyards. He designed his own cutter, which he named Snail when she was launched. His social circle included the Duke of York, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Cumberland, who were all brothers of King George III.

Hannah is top left and the prospective groom is the standing figure on the right

In 1775 George Clavering-Cowper the presumptive 3rd Earl Cowper married Gore's sixteen-year-old daughter Hannah Anne Gore on 2 June. Their betrothal was commemorated with a painting by Johann Zoffany, commissioned by Gore.^[1] In 1780, his daughter went on to live in the Villa Palmieri in Fiesole and to have three children, two of whom became earls.^[2]

Gore died in Weimar.

References

1. Burkes peerage, accessed April 2010
2. Elizabeth Gibson, "Earl Cowper in Florence and his correspondence with the Italian opera in London", Music and Letters 68.3, 1987:235–252