Although Gore was primarily a painter of landscapes, urban scenes and figure studies, portraits were nevertheless a recurrent if occasional part of his output. These consist principally of pictures of Mollie, painting more of her than anyone else; his other portraits also number
North London Girl (Tate
T03561), a picture of the woman who made the tea at 19 Fitzroy Street, and
Portrait of Stanislawa de Karlowska c.1913 (private collection).
6 Of his self-portraits there is one from c.1906 in Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery,
7 one which belonged to Robert Bevan entitled
Conversation Piece and Self-Portrait 1910 (private collection)
8 in which the reflection in the mirror of an overmantel is indebted to Walter Sickert, and the well-known, modernistic image in the National Portrait Gallery of 1914 (fig.1). All of Gore’s forays into portraiture are informal in character, and usually naturalistic.