William Henry Gore was born in Speenhamland, Berkshire, England on 3 September 1857 and studied at Lambeth School of Art in London and, from 1880 to 1885, at the Royal Academy Schools in London. He subsequently returned to Berkshire where he remained for the rest of his career as an artist. He worked as a painter, primarily of wistful pastoral scenes, genre subjects, small children, and animals. From 1880 to 1916 Gore exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, Royal Academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, Leicester Gallery and Royal Institute of Oil Painters in London; Royal Birmingham Society of Artists; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin; Manchester City Art Gallery; and the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.