A Lost Cause: Flight of King James II after the Battle of the Boyne is an 1888 history painting by the English artist Andrew Carrick Gow.

[1][2] It depicts a scene from 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland when James II sailed for France from the port of Kinsale following his Irish Army's defeat at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

After his departure his Jacobite supporters continued to fight on – notably at the Battle of Aughrim – before surrendering at Limerick in 1691.

It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1888.

[3] Today it is in the collection of the Tate Britain in London, having been acquired in 1894.