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Thomas Cooper Gotch
English Pre-Raphaelite painter & printmaker
born 1854 - died 1 May 1931
Student of: Jean-Paul Laurens (1838-1931).
President of: Royal British Colonial Society (from 1913 to 1928).
Student at: Kettering Grammar School; Slade School at Antwerp.
Gotch was born in Kettering, Northamptonshire to a prosperous middle
class family involved in making shoes and banking. The family were
nonconformists. He attended school locally, and entered his father’s
business, before taking up the study of art at Heatherley’s Art School
in 1876. He then studied briefly in Antwerp, before progressing to the
Slade. He married a fellow student Caroline Yates, whom he met in Paris.
They had one daughter Phyllis, who was a model in some of her father’s
most important pictures. The young family travelled to Australia, where
they settled in Melbourne. They returned to England, settling in the
painteric colony of Newlyn in 1887. Gotch and his wife lived in Newlyn
for the rest of their lives. He painted in the style of the Newlyn
School at this time. |
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