English painter, the son of the first Wimbledon champion, Spencer Walter Gore and also the nephew of the bishop of London, Charles Gore. He was born in Epsom and educated at Harrow and the Slade School 1896-9, where he formed a friendship with Harold Gilman and where contemporaries included Wyndham Lewis and Albert Rutherston. In 1902 he went to Madrid with Lewis and studied Goya; in 1904 he painted in Normandy with Rothenstein, visiting Sickert in Dieppe. A friend of Lucien Pissarro, he was a founder member of the Fitzroy Street group, of the AAA (Allied Artists' Association) in 1908, the Camden Town Group in 1911 (of which he was the first President), and of the London Group in 1913. He also exhibited at the NEAC, becoming a member in 1909. In 1912 his work was included in the second Post-Impressionist Exhibition and he was chief organiser and an exhibitor in the English Post-Impressionists, Cubists and Others exhibition. In 1912 he directed the mural decorations at the nightclub, ‘The Cave of the Golden Calf'. He described himself as a Neo-Impressionist and he was one of the most innovative and widely liked amongst his contemporaries. He died prematurely from pneumonia at the age of thirty-five.
English painter, the son of the first Wimbledon champion, Spencer Walter Gore and also the nephew of the bishop of London, Charles Gore. He was born in Epsom and educated at Harrow and the Slade School 1896-9, where he formed a friendship with Harold Gilman and where contemporaries included Wyndham Lewis and Albert Rutherston. In 1902 he went to Madrid with Lewis and studied Goya; in 1904 he painted in Normandy with Rothenstein, visiting Sickert in Dieppe. A friend of Lucien Pissarro, he was a founder member of the Fitzroy Street group, of the AAA (Allied Artists' Association) in 1908, the Camden Town Group in 1911 (of which he was the first President), and of the London Group in 1913. He also exhibited at the NEAC, becoming a member in 1909. In 1912 his work was included in the second Post-Impressionist Exhibition and he was chief organiser and an exhibitor in the English Post-Impressionists, Cubists and Others exhibition. In 1912 he directed the mural decorations at the nightclub, ‘The Cave of the Golden Calf'. He described himself as a Neo-Impressionist and he was one of the most innovative and widely liked amongst his contemporaries. He died prematurely from pneumonia at the age of thirty-five.
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