Spencer Frederick Gore (26 May 1878 – 27 March 1914); British painter of landscapes, music-hall scenes and interiors, usually with single figures. He was the first president of the Camden Town Group, and was influenced by the Post-Impressionists. In 1904 Albert Rutherston introduced him to Walter Sickert at Dieppe; and afterwards he associated in Fitzroy Street, London, with Sickert, Lucien Pissarro, Harold Gilman and Charles Ginner. In 1909 he became a member of the New English Art Club, and in 1910 contributed an article to The Art News on "The Third London Salon of the Allied Artists Association". In 1911 he was a co-founder and first president of the Camden Town Group. In January 1912 he married Mary Joanna ("Molly") Kerr, with whom he had 2 children – Margaret Elizabeth (1912–1994) and Frederick John Pym (1913–2009); the latter would become well known as the painter Frederick Gore. His widow died at Meopham, Kent in 1968. In 1913 he became a member of the London Group. His later works show growing concern with pictorial construction, under the influence of the Post-Impressionists. He experimented with color in his works, as may be seen in his painting Hartington Square. Gore painted a series of 32 landscapes in Richmond Park during the last months of his life. His painting From a Window in Cambrian Road, Richmond shows the view from a top-floor window at the rear of 6 Cambrian Road, near the park's Cambrian Gate entrance, where he and his family moved to in 1913. This may be the last picture Gore worked on before his death. According to Tate curator Helena Bonett, Gore's early death from pneumonia, 2 months before what would have been his 36th birthday, was brought on by his painting outdoors in Richmond Park in the cold and wet winter months. Gore's painting Richmond Park, thought to have been painted in the autumn of 1913 or shortly before the artist's death in March 1914, was exhibited at the... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Gore_(artist)) undefined

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