Charles Gore

Charles Gore (5 December 1729 – 23 January 1807) was an English marine artist. He married well and travelled throughout Europe and knew royalty, Goethe and the artist Johann Zoffany. He settled and died in Germany.

Life Gore was born in Horkstow Hall in Horkstow in North Lincolnshire in 1729.

He attended Westminster School

In 1775 George Clavering-Cowper, the presumptive 3rd Earl Cowper married Gore's sixteen-year-old daughter Hannah Anne Gore on 2 June.

His daughter Elizabeth Gore married Rev. Henry Wood D.D (Cambridge), son of Francis Wood JP. of Monk Bretton, Yorkshire, and brother of Sir Francis Wood and of Sir Charles Wood.

"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". He died there in 1807.