Painter, teacher and writer, born in Richmond, Surrey, son of the artist Spencer Gore. He studied at Trinity College and Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, 1932–4, finally at Westminster School of Art and Slade School of Fine Art, 1934–7. In the latter year he had his first one-man show at Redfern Gallery, followed by a series there after World War II. In 1938 he travelled in Greece, showing the resulting work in Paris. Greece, Majorca and France were favourite landscape subjects for Gore, whose rich palette had more in common with the French than the English tradition. Gore taught at Westminster, Epsom and Chelsea Schools of Art and was head of the painting department at St Martin’s School of Art, 1951–79. He was elected RA in 1973 and was chairman of its exhibition committee, 1976–87.

His publications included Abstract Art, 1956; Painting: Some Basic Principles, 1965; and Piero della Francesca’s The Baptism, 1969; plus many RA catalogue introductions. In 1979 he had retrospectives at Gainsborough’s House in Sudbury and Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, with an important one at RA in 1989. There were ninetieth-birthday shows at Fosse Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold, and Carlyle Gallery, both 2003, and the Jonathan Wylder Gallery gave Gore a show in 2006. Southampton, Plymouth and Reading public galleries hold his work. Lived in London.

Source: Art UK