Charles Gough (artist)

Charles Gough
1829 painting, Attachment, by Edwin Landseer, imagining the scene of Gough's death
Born	1784
Died	April 1805 Red Tarn, Helvellyn, Lake District

Charles Gough (1784 – April 1805) was an artist of the early English romantic movement in the 18th and 19th centuries. He did not achieve significant fame in his lifetime, but after his mysterious death in 1805, he became seen as a martyr, and an icon of the romantic vision. The story of his death was visualised by some of the leading poets and artists of the period.