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Oil on board, 24.75 x 31cm
Signed
€ 1,000 - 1,500
William Crampton Gore was born in Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh. Initially Gore studied medicine at Trinity College Dublin but abandoned his studies in 1901 for painting. He studied at the
Slade school in London under the guidance of Henry Tonks and then was in Paris. He travelled extensively in India, New York, and Italy before returning to the Slade where he met William
Orpen. Orpen depicted him in his painting “A Mere Fracture” and later Gore shared a studio with Augustus John. He first exhibited at the RHA in 1905 and showed over one hundred works
until 1939.
His subject matter looks to scenes of Achill Island, Donegal, and French scenes. His landscapes were described as being crisp and breezy. His interior scenes were described as being “defi-
nitely instructive” (The Studio Jan 1919). The Dublin Magazine (Oct - Dec 1946) described him as “a delightful urbane painter, with a rich sense of colour somewhat reminiscent of Pissarro,
and at times of Osborne, especially in his interiors. There is a rightness and absence of strain in his composition”. He remained most of his life in France after his marriage in 1923, but
continued to paint themes of Irish scenes.