| A painter of portraits, landscape and allegorical and realistic genre, Thomas Cooper Gotch was born in Kettering and studied at Heatherley’s School, the École des Beaux Arts, Antwerp, the Slade School and in Paris under J P Laurens. He visited Australia in 1883, then lived in London and finally settled in 1887 at Newlyn, Cornwall, where he belonged to the Newlyn School of plein-air painters. He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1880, and at Suffolk Street, the Old Watercolour Society, the New Watercolour Society, the Grosvenor Gallery, the New Gallery, Munich, Paris and Chicago. Thomas Cooper Gotch was an original member of the New English Art Club (1886), as well as a member of the RBA (1885) and the RI (1912), and founder of the Royal British Colonial Society of Artists (1887) and President (1913-28). A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle (1910), and the Chantry Bequest purchased his work ‘Allelulia’ in 1896. His earlier work was naturalistic in the style of the Newlyn School, but after his visit to Italy in 1891, he turned to more symbolistic and allegorical subjects, and a more decorative treatment, for example, as seen in ‘Allelulia’. Manuscripts relating to Gotch are held by the V&A. |
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John Noott Galleries at Dickens House Tel: 01386 858969 /854868 |
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Artist : Thomas Cooper Gotch RBA RI
Title : Flora Anne Jane (1907)
Size : 20.00" x 13.00"
Medium : Oil
Price : Please Call 01386 854868
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