Alec Carruthers Gould (7 March 1870, Woodford,

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– 1948) was an English illustrator and landscape and marine painter. The eldest son of

Francis Carruthers Gould Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (2 December 1844 – 1925) was a British caricaturist and political cartoonist, born in Barnstaple, Devon. He published as F. Carruthers Gould and signed his cartoons FCG. Biography Gould was the son of Richard Da ...

, Alec Gould was educated privately by tutors and at Prisca Coborn's school. He studied art at Heatherley's school,

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, and Langham Life Class. He was an illustrator for various newspapers and magazines and several books. For many years he was an illustrator on the staff of the ''

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''. He illustrated Ernest William Hendy's ''Wild Exmoor through the Year'' (1930). Gould exhibited ''Floods out'' in 1895 and ''A shady corner on a Dartmoor farm'' in 1900 at the

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. He also exhibited at a number of other galleries, notably the

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, the Royal Institute of Painters in Oil, the

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and the

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, where he was a member and a prolific contributor. About the year 1923 Gould contributed a 1 inch by 1 inch landscape painting to

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.Alec Carruthers Gould (1870–1948), Landscape, Royal Collection Identification Number 927034
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