Andrew Carrick Gow

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1848–1920

Andrew Carrick Gow was a British painter who painted scenes from British and European history as well as portraits and genre. == Biography == Born in London in 1848, Gow studied at Heatherley's School of Art. He was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and elsewhere from 1867 onwards, and in 1881, he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy, becoming a full Royal Academician in 1891. 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. Gow's sister, Mary Gow, was also an artist, and the artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema was a close friend.

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