He married well and travelled throughout Europe and knew royalty, Goethe and the artist Johann Zoffany.

[1] He attended Westminster School[2] before working with his father's brother in a London trading company.

In 1751 he married Mary (born Cockerill), whose wealth meant that Gore did not need to work again.

After his father died he moved with his family in 1759 to Southampton, where he spent many days creating watercolours of naval scenes at the Portsmouth shipyards.

"A widely travelled, cultured gentleman with artistic tastes", Gore settled in Weimar in 1792, "presumably at the instance of Karl August who had fallen in love with the second daughter, and Goethe was a constant visitor at their house".