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William Crampton Gore (1871 - 1946) was active/lived in Ireland, England.  William Gore is known for Floral still life, interior scene painting.

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 William Crampton Gore RHA (Interiors, Still Lifes, Landscapes) (1871-1946)

Born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, William Gore trained in medicine at Trinity College Dublin, practicing as a doctor until 1900, although he took several months leave in 1898 to study fine art painting under the renowned Henry Tonks at the Slade School in London.  After a short posting as a ship's surgeon, he returned to the Slade School (1900-1904) to further his studies in drawing and painting, becoming friends with William Orpen and also Augustus John, with whom he shared a studio. He also spent time painting in Paris.

In 1905, he began showing at the Royal Hibernian Academy, submitting more than 100 paintings up until 1939.  In 1916, he was elected an Associate Academician, and two years later he was elected a full member.  He also exhibited with the Water Colour Society of Ireland.

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   William Crampton Gore  Born:  1871
Died:   1946
Known for:  Floral still life, interior scene painting
Name variants:  William Crampton

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William Crampton Gore RHA (Interiors, Still Lifes, Landscapes) (1871-1946)

Born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, William Gore trained in medicine at Trinity College Dublin, practicing as a doctor until 1900, although he took several months leave in 1898 to study fine art painting under the renowned Henry Tonks at the Slade School in London.  After a short posting as a ship's surgeon, he returned to the Slade School (1900-1904) to further his studies in drawing and painting, becoming friends with William Orpen and also Augustus John, with whom he shared a studio. He also spent time painting in Paris.

In 1905, he began showing at the Royal Hibernian Academy, submitting more than 100 paintings up until 1939.  In 1916, he was elected an Associate Academician, and two years later he was elected a full member.  He also exhibited with the Water Colour Society of Ireland.

His focus was principally interiors and still-lifes, in oils.  He was particularly interested in flowerpieces, and was instrumental in persuading the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland to hold an exhibition of Flower and Garden Paintings at the Metropolitan School of Art in the 1940s.

A keen traveler, he spent a year (1922-3) touring China and Japan, and also painted in Spain. Following his marriage in 1923, he settled in the South of France, where he was often visited by Dermod O'Brien PRHA, to whom he was related.  In 1932, he moved to Colchester, Essex, where he remained until his death in 1946.

He was represented in numerous exhibitions of Irish art, including the celebrated Exhibition of Irish Artists in Brussels (1930). Examples of William Crampton Gore's work can be seen in the Limerick City Gallery of Art and the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin.

Source:
Encyclopedia of Irish and World Art online
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/biographies-of-irish-artists/addey-guinness.htm#gore


Biography from Morgan O'Driscoll

The son of an army officer from Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, William Crampton Gore studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin, graduating in 1897.  The following year, he was working as a surgeon in London, while also attending classes at the Slade School of Art, where he studied under Henry Tonks--other teachers included Wilson Steer and Walter Russell.  After practicing medicine for several years, followed by a spell as a ship's surgeon, Gore decided to become a full-time painter.

He returned to the Slade where, between 1900 and 1904, he was friends with William Orpen and Augustus John-he appears as the doctor in Orpen's painting A Mere Fracture, painted in 1901 at 21 Fitzroy Street.  Gore rented rooms at this address, a house nicknamed 'The Newcomes' (after the novel by Thackeray) and owned by a Mrs. Everett, a fellow student at the Slade.  Orpen, Augustus John and Gwen John also had rooms in this house.  Gore shared a studio with Augustus John, and also bought drawings by him.

Gore then moved on to Paris, where he continued his art studies.  By 1913 he was still in the French capital, from where he submitted paintings to the RA and the RHA, as well as to the Paris Salon.  He was a dedicated painter, exhibiting over one hundred works at the RHA over the following decades.  He was elected an ARHA in 1916, and a full member two years later.  Although he spent most of his life in France, throughout the 1920's Gore continued to make trips to Ireland, to paint landscapes.  A painting of A Cottage Interior in Donegal, completed in 1930, was shown at the RHA the following year.

Following their marriage in 1923, Gore and his French wife Yvonne set up house in a town overlooking the Canche valley in Northern France.  Within easy distance of Paris, Montreuil-Sur-Mer was also on the route to Calais.  Although the name suggests the town is by the sea, even in 1837, when Victor Hugo stayed at the inn, the Canche river had silted up, making Montreuil landlocked.  Hugo chose Montreuil as one of the settings of his novel Les Miserables.  Gore had been familiar with the town since before World War One:  In 1909 he painted The Circus Vans, Montreuil.  In the 1920's he painted St. Saulve, the Benedictine abbey in the town, a scene depicted also by his cousin, the artist Dermod O'Brien, who stayed with the Gores from time to time.  In another painting of the same interior of the family home, Gore depicted Yvonne holding their young daughter Elizabeth. The French doors are open, sunlight streams in through green louvred shutters, and there is a bowl of flowers on the circular table.

Gore exhibited a portrait of Yvonne at the NEAC in 1927.  Two years later, his daughter Elizabeth appears in another Montreuil painting, playing the piano.  Gore was at his best with these paintings, which reflect his love of quiet domesticity, and of plants and flowers-among his still lives are depictions of Hyacinths, Phloxes, and Zinnias.  In later years he encouraged the Royal Horticultural Society to host an exhibition of garden paintings at the Metropolitan School of Art. During World War II, Gore returned to England, where in 1940-41 he painted a view of the RAMC Medical Camp at Bury.  His daughter married William "Bill" Burton (1907-1995), a painter from Norfolk, who attributed his initial interest in art to his Irish father-in-law.Peter Murray, March 2019


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