Spencer Gore (artist)

Spencer Frederick Gore (26 May 1878 – 27 March 1914)[1] was a British painter of landscapes, music-hall scenes and interiors, usually with single figures.

He was born on 26 May 1878 at Epsom in Surrey, the youngest of the four children of the Wimbledon tennis champion, Spencer Gore and his wife Amy Margaret (née Smith).

He went on to study painting in London at the Slade School of Fine Art, where he was a contemporary of Harold Gilman.

[13] There features also an obituary piece by Wyndham Lewis, who edited the magazine, and who eulogises Gore's "dogged, almost romantic industry, his passion for the delicate objects set in the London atmosphere around him, his grey conception of the artist's life, his gentleness and fineness, [which] would have matured into an abundant personal art".

[14] He died at Richmond, Surrey, on 27 March 1914, aged 35 and was buried in Hertingfordbury in Hertfordshire, where his mother lived.

[15] Spencer Gore gave John Doman Turner artistic training from 1908 to 1913 in a series of thirty letters.